Threatened pandemics and laboratory escapes: Self-fulfilling prophecies - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Threatened pandemics and laboratory escapes: Self-fulfilling prophecies - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: The risk of a manmade pandemic sparked by a laboratory escape is not hypothetical: Many laboratory escapes of high-consequence pathogens have occurred. Ironically, these laboratories were working with pathogens to prevent the very outbreaks they ultimately caused.