The Risks of Viral Research

The New Yorker

Paul Duprex, PhD, microbiology

In 1967, William H. Stewart, the Surgeon General, travelled to the White House to deliver one of the most encouraging messages ever spoken by American public-health official. “It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease”…

Expert quote:

“Virologists will be deprived of a powerful tool of human inquiry if they are unable to perform adaptation experiments.”

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