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 That's the question facing researchers in the high-security laboratories responsible for protecting the public from deadly human diseases.
Despite increasingly strict bio-safety procedures — including new
international standards for containing dangerous pathogens, to be
published next year by the World Health Organization — accidents,
carelessness, and even malicious behaviour are cause for serious alarm.
Recent cattle infections in Britain, for example, have been blamed on a
foot-and-mouth virus thought to have escaped from a nearby lab. This
report from the UK's Telegraph articulates the concerns, and asks: Are current safety guidelines enough?
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