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Construction is wrapping up at a new biological research lab in Manhattan, Kansas, where researchers will study vaccines and treatments for highly contagious diseases that affect livestock and humans.
Fear of the COVID lab leak theory has Kansas lawmakers pressing forward with a transparency regulation bill intended to prevent disease outbreaks.
“While the US is solely focused on Chinese labs, the US seldom pays attention to the fault in its own domestic labs, some of which have even triggered virus-related accidents before. According to an August 2020 article by ProPublica, an independent newsroom that produces investigative journalism, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reported 28 lab incidents involving genetically engineered organisms to safety officials at the National Institutes of Health between January 2015 and June 2020. “Six of the incidents involved various types of lab-created coronaviruses,” ProPublic...
Published June 22. 2021 8:09PM Eva Dou, The Washington Post In May 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology's staff filed into an old-fashioned lecture hall. A local representative of China's National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets was at the lectern. The official, Tang Kaihong, discussed the national security risks of the institute's research and warned of infiltration efforts by foreign spies, according to an account published by the institute's parent organization, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The researchers signed pledges to protect confidential information. The Wu...