While the debate rages, a global race to build high-containment research facilities is underway, with scant international safeguards in place to monitor risky experiments and regulate practices.
There are 69 so-called Biosafety Level 4, or BSL-4, facilities designed to study dangerous infectious pathogens in operation, under construction or planned worldwide, according to Global Biolabs, a tracking project run out of King’s College London and George Mason University in Virginia. About a decade ago, there were only 25.
Scientists have long swapped ideas about standardizing safety and security amid biolab building booms. But as geopolitical tensions mount, global cooperation is unraveling. “International collaboration is incredibly important,” said Representative Ami Bera, a California Democrat and physician. “We have to have the systems in place to identify pandemics fairly quickly.”
Paul Auwaerter, clinical director of infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, warned about efforts to restrict public health research. This aerial view shows the P4 laboratory, at left, on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 27, 2020. Opened in 2018, the P4 lab conducts research on the world's most dangerous diseases and has been accused by some top U.S. officials of being the source of the COVID-19 pandemic. “If we have very strict rules and shutdown or halt research in the U.S.
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