The book investigated historical lab leaks and discussed the 2018 anthrax leak incident at Fort Detrick, which was kept secret until the book's release.
I have been an investigative reporter covering laboratory accidents for 15 years.
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The book investigated historical lab leaks and discussed the 2018 anthrax leak incident at Fort Detrick, which was kept secret until the book's release.
I have been an investigative reporter covering laboratory accidents for 15 years.
Pandora's Gamble is looking at the whole question of did COVID-19 come from a laboratory accident in the larger context of these kinds of accidents happen all the time?
On the Friday before Memorial Day in 2018 at Fort Dietrich, one of the premier labs run by the U.S. Army, USAMRIID, they had a wastewater tank, a 50,000 gallon wastewater tank, which by the way was rusting and had a variety of other problems.
And in the weeks before that happened, those labs had been working with anthrax, Ebola, Marburg virus. I mean, a variety of the most dangerous pathogens in the world.
But why that happened, other than that there were various safety issues, was not known until now.
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It was discussed in the context of lab leaks and pandemics, particularly a 2018 anthrax leak at Fort Detrick, which the book revealed in detail.
So I have been an investigative reporter covering laboratory accidents for 15 years.
Pandora's Gamble is looking at the whole question of did COVID-19 come from a laboratory accident in the larger context of these kinds of accidents happen all the time?
On the Friday before Memorial Day in 2018 at Fort Dietrich, one of the premier labs run by the U.S. Army, USAMRIID, they had a wastewater tank, a 50,000 gallon wastewater tank, which by the way was rusting and had a variety of other problems. One of the pipes burst on it and it shot over a containment wall as much as 3,000 gallons of unsterilized laboratory waste.
And in the weeks before that happened, those labs had been working with anthrax, Ebola, Marburg virus. I mean, a variety of the most dangerous pathogens in the world.
The thing that's really concerning about accidents with Corona virus or various kinds of avian flu viruses are that those are pathogens that can spread from person to person.
