Virusexperiment inte värt risken

published May 21, 2014 02:04   by admin ( last modified May 21, 2014 02:04 )



But in a report on Tuesday, researchers at Harvard and Yale universities argue that the benefits of the work are outweighed by the risk of pathogenic strains escaping from laboratories and spreading around the world. They calculate that if 10 high-containment labs in the US performed such experiments for 10 years, the chance of at least one person becoming infected was nearly 20%. If an infected person left the laboratory, the virus might then spread more widely.


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