War or political instability can lead to biohazard risks that may not be accounted for in biosafety and biosecurity protocols.
The entire chain of virus hunting work entails risks that can lead to accidental infection, from handling animals to experiments in the lab.
Senior virus hunters requested nearly $300,000 in government-funded business class flights
EcoHealth Alliance conducted field research for years in Southeast Asia, a region central to the origin of COVID-19, but some of the data appears to have been withdrawn from public view. EcoHealth Alliance, an American scientific organization that receives funds from several federal agencies, has come under scrutiny for its controversial work hunting for novel … Another missing database? EcoHealth project in Southeast Asia is under construction
Metabiota, one of five main partners implementing the $200 million USAID-funded PREDICT virus-hunting project that concluded in 2019, had safety and data quality lapses, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know. The San Francisco-based firm describes itself as a government and private industry partner specializing in pandemic prediction and mitigation. However, documents from … Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems
U.S. funded the discovery of RaTG13, the closest relative of Covid-19 known before the pandemic began.
EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak opposed the public release of Covid-19-related virus sequence data gathered from China as part of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) PREDICT program, according to emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know. The conversation in late April 2020 involved employees of EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that has received millions … EcoHealth Alliance wanted to block disclosure of Covid-19-relevant virus data from China
