Annie Jacobsen: There are only 17 Premier Biosafety Labs in all of the USA
A former DARPA-connected national security veteran told this author gain-of-function is a euphemism for biological weapons engineering — and that engineering is illegal.
Annie Jacobsen is the Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author whose new book traces exactly how a lab accident becomes a global catastrophe.
We cover:
- What gain-of-function actually means when a pathogen gains virulence
- Transmissibility, or the ability to defy a vaccine
- Why the number of BSL-4 labs jumped from 2 to 17 since 9/11
- How 3,500 BSL-3 labs handling plague and hantavirus are spread across 110 countries — some in active war zones
- Why a "catastrophic biological incident" in official doctrine doesn't require an attack at all.
Andy Weber, who served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from Reagan through Obama, calls gain-of-function biological weapons engineering by another name.
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