In 2017, Scientists warned that a SARS-like virus could escape a lab set-up that year in Wuhan, after China built a lab to study SARS and Ebola and some of the most dangerous pathogens in the world. The Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory is the only lab in China specially designated for studying dangerous pathogens. However, before its establishment in January 2018, biosafety experts and medical scientists from the United States expressed deep concerns that a virus could escape the lab. Currently, a SARS-like Coronavirus has infected over 800 people with 25 people dead in Wuhan and nearby provinces. The virus had spread to at least 10 other countries. A scientist who spoke to Nature in 2017, according to our findings said "studying behaviour of a virus like 209-nCoV and developing treatment or vaccines for it requires infecting research monkeys, an important step before human testing". "Monkeys are unpredictable though, they can run, they can scratch, they ...
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