Children's Health Defense The entire chain of virus-hunting work entails risks that can lead to accidental infection, from handling animals to experiments in the lab, but the federally funded programs don’t address the risks of collecting the viruses, documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know reveal.
By Karolina Corin
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the globe in January 2020, virus hunters pushed for funding to uncover more “yet-to-be-recognized deadly viruses.” They believed that cataloging viruses in wildlife could help prevent future pandemics.
“In China alone, we sampled >10,000 bats and ~2,000 other mammals, using PREDICT protocols to discover 52 novel SARS related-CoV’s, including the closest relative of the Wuhan nCoV [SARS-CoV-2],” boasts a University of California, Davis letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) requesting federal support for programs like PREDICT, the government’s flagship virus-hunting program.
However, the letter didn’t mention the risks of collecting and studying SARS-related viruses, which have the potential to be lethal or highly transmissible.
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