Scientists are warning that a chilling series of red flags continues to be overlooked when viruses escape from labs, as whistleblowers claim Covid‘s true origins were covered up for years.
A team led by Sandhya Dhawan from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand noted that there had been roughly 70 infamous lab leaks since the 1900s and expected there to be even more in the future, which threaten the globe.
In the study, they focused on seven of these deadly incidents from 1955 to 2019, discovering the leaks all shared the same warning signs, such as unexplained early spread without a clear animal source, delayed reporting and outbreaks emerging near laboratories handling dangerous viruses.