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Chinese lab studying world's most dangerous pathogens located in Wuhan
- xvx 7y agoSo the bizarre animal market may just be a fall guy and a deadly pathogen escaped containment?
- dx7tnt 7y agoThe irony..
- quelltext 7y ago2017
- protocolture 7y agoIts being shared to imply a link between the facility and the outbreak.
- draugadrotten 7y agoRelevant quotes: "Some scientists outside China worry about pathogens escaping,..." and "Future plans include studying the pathogen that causes SARS..."
- quelltext 7y agoYes, but for that I think the fact that this article is from 2017 highlights this. I thought at first "huh, why would that be a good place for such a lab now" before I checked the article's dating.
- miek 7y agoSurprised this didn't get more upvotes! This is a crazy coincidence.
- 1_over_n 7y agoFrom what I can see this is the single highest grade viral research facility in the whole of china. There isn’t another with the same status.
- SZJX 7y agoThe article is updated now: > Editors’ note, January 2020: Many stories have promoted an unverified theory that the Wuhan lab discussed in this article played a role in the coronavirus outbreak that began in December 2019. Nature knows of no evidence that this is true; scientists believe the most likely source of the coronavirus to be an animal market.