In 2004, a Russian scientist accidentally pricked her hand with a needle while drawing blood from an infected guinea pig. Two weeks later she died of Ebola
IN THE SPRING of 2004 Antonina Presnyakova was working at the Vektor Research Institute of Molecular Biology near Novosibirsk, a remote Russian city. The scientist accidentally pricked her hand with a needle while drawing blood from an infected guinea pig and was rushed to hospital. There was little to be done. Two weeks later she died of Ebola.A daily email with the best of our journalism”—the theory that covid-19 escaped from a research facility in Wuhan, China.
It is not just those who work in laboratories who are at risk. Deadly pathogens escape beyond laboratory walls with disturbing regularity, only some of which are recorded by the ABSA. In 1979 at least 68 people died when anthrax spores leaked from a Soviet military facility and drifted downwind. In 2007 an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain was caused by a leaky pipe at the Pirbright Institute, a high-security lab in Surrey.
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