The US terminates $125m wildlife virus hunting programme

A flagship project, DEEP VZN, which hunts for viruses among wildlife in South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America to try and prevent human outbreaks and pandemics is being quietly dropped by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after private and bipartisan criticism over the safety of such research, The BMJ has found.
Find out why, and what that might mean for biosecurity in The BMJ investigation; www.bmj.com/content/382/bmj.p...