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Marburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_outbreak_in_West_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_outbreak_in...) is another n
by bewaretheirs 5y ago
Marburg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_outbreak_in_West_Germany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_outbreak_in...) is another notable lab leak.
Might be a better match in some ways as it was a previously unknown pathogen, from a previously unknown family of viruses, isolated only after several lab workers got sick.
- dls2016 5y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC416634/ “ The World Health Organization has confirmed that breaches of safety procedures on at least two occasions at one of Beijing's top virology laboratories were the probable cause of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) there last month, which infected nine people, one of whom died.” It even happened with a coronavirus in China before!