A Federal Ban on Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/health/lethal-viruses-nih.html
In October 2014, all federal funding was halted on efforts to make three viruses more dangerous: the flu virus, and those causing Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
But the new regulations apply to any pathogen that could potentially cause a pandemic. For example, they would apply to a request to create an Ebola virus transmissible through the air, said Dr. Collins.
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