Why do you think it's very, very unlikely? Accidental releases of viruses from labs have happened quite regularly. It's a serious concern. The UK was first in

Why do you think it's very, very unlikely? Accidental releases of viruses from labs have happened quite regularly. It's a serious concern. The UK was first introduced to the uselessness of Imperial College and their epidemiological modelling by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 2001 amongst livestock. It resulted in mass killing (by humans) of animals. Eventually the epidemic disappeared, amongst great acrimony and disaster for farmers. In 2007 foot and mouth appeared again. This time, the virus was traced to the source of the outbreak. It came from a lab in Pirbright where the virus had been stored for research. Two government orgs were connected by pipes, and the pipes had been allowed to rust due to a budget dispute over which org should pay for repairs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-m... There's a long history of biolabs leaking and being found to be dangerous. It's not at all unlikely given this shoddy history. https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-long-history-of-accidental-laboratory-releases-of-potential-pandemic-pathogens/ https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-long-histo... the New York Times (8/5/19) reported: “Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns” https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/reports-of-incidents-at-bioterror-select-agent-labs/14140483/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/17/reports... "Hundreds of bioterror lab mishaps cloaked in secrecy" https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/23/undisclosed-cdc-lab-incidents/86305700/ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/23/undisclosed-cd... Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday they have identified 34 incident reports involving bioterror pathogens mishandled at CDC labs that were “inadvertently” not disclosed in 2014 to congressional investigators who had asked for the information Oh and here's one from December 2019: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03863-z https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03863-z Chinese institutes investigate pathogen outbreaks in lab workers