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“Veterinarians are on the front line of the outbreak, and increased biosafety practices like respiratory and eye protection should reduce their exposure risk.”

If an academic researcher proposes an experiment that would make a bacterium resistant to drugs, for example, the university’s biosafety committee must report the work to the funding agency and submit a risk mitigation plan.

The Wuhan institute’s biosafety practices have intensified concerns about the possibility of a lab leak.

“I think countries need to start preparing for the response efforts that’s needed for ... big biosafety concerns,” she said.

She says concerns about the experiments have been “really overblown” as all have been done in high-level biosecurity facilities under strict biosafety precautions.