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Exotic virus hunting program quietly shut down by US Government over safety fears | Science | News

Government officials had raised concerns about the program having the potential to inadvertently cause the exact kind of pandemic it was dreamed up to prevent. ....

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The US quietly terminates a controversial $125m wildlife virus hunting programme amid safety fears

Two years after launching what officials hailed as a five year flagship project for hunting viruses among wildlife to prevent human pandemics, the US Agency for International Development is shuttering the enterprise. David Willman reports

A flagship project for the controversial practice of hunting viruses among wildlife in South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America to prevent human outbreaks and pandemics is being quietly dropped by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after private and bipartisan criticism over the safety of such research, The BMJ has found.

For more than a decade the US government has been funding international projects engaged in identifying exotic wildlife viruses that might someday infect humans. Although critics have raised concerns over the potentially catastrophic risks of such virus hunting activities,1 hundreds of millions of dollars in unabated funding have symbolised a commitment to the effort.

The shuttering ....

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US Silently Halts Debatable Wildlife Virus Hunt Over Safety Concerns

US Silently Halts Debatable Wildlife Virus Hunt Over Safety Concerns
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US quietly shuts down controversial wildlife virus hunting program amid safety fears

US quietly shuts down controversial wildlife virus hunting program amid safety fears
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Spurred by pandemic, U.S. government will revisit federal policies on risky virus research

Spurred by pandemic, U.S. government will revisit federal policies on risky virus research
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