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Risky research: making diseases more deadly

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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Is It Possible to Do This Research in a Safe Way?

Everything is subject to human error. These labs are designed with redundant safety systems, but at the end of the day, its human beings at are operating within them. In the united states, there are only a sub set of laboratories that come under actual true regulation. Every year, just in that sub set of labs, there are a hundred serious incidents every single year where a person working in a lab has been exposed to some sort of a select agent.

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