
#680: July 31-August 1, 2003
Knowledge Fight
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Is This a Monkey Escape From a Bio Defense Lab?
The monkey didn't escape from a BSL 4 lab or even a bio lab. It was a rhesus monkey that escaped from the California National Primate Research Center. The reason this is at all relevant to the story Alex is covering is because that center is at UC Davis and there was talk of building a $150 million bio containment lab there. This incident was enough to put the kibosh on this plan lab and it never got built at UC Davis.
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