2021-05-25 14:18:20
Chris Said (@Chris_Said) on viral lab leaks throughout history: https://mobile.twitter.com/Chris_Said/status/1396827966395625474
1. SARS-1 has escaped from sophisticated labs 6 separate times, in Singapore, Taiwan, and China. https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-laboratory-escapes-self-fulfilling-prophecies/
2. Smallpox escaped 3 times from labs in England, causing 80 cases and 3 deaths.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/228654/0668.pdf.pdf
3. The 2007 Foot and mouth disease outbreak in the UK first appeared four kilometers from a biosafety level 4 laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak
4. Foot and mouth disease had previously escaped a Kansas lab in 2004, not once but twice! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plum_Island_Animal_Disease_Center#Laboratory_accidents
5. Ebola, Zika, H5N1, and Dengue have all escaped labs. People died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity_incidents
6. H1N1 escaped from a lab in 1977 and killed 700,000 people that year. Variants of that strain likely still exist today. https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/the-long-history-of-accidental-laboratory-releases-of-potential-pandemic-pathogens/
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