
Risky research: making diseases more deadly
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Pandemic of Aviris
Foot and mouth at the top of the animal diseases. It only is worked on in the most secure facilities. And yet, somehow it still manages to escape. We also had, you know, obviously the pandemic has everyone thinking about tsars, corona viruses. When the first tsars virus emerged, after that epidemic was contained, there was a series of lab accidents where workers who were unaware that they'd become exposed became ill. So these kinds of things where the pathagin gets out and affects the wider community are relatively rare, but they have happened.
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