Yes, lab-made and lab-held viruses do jump out of the lab and have killed lots of people and caused pandemics too
Extremely important paper by Martin Furmanski, MD that no one knows about
https://armscontrolcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Escaped-Viruses-final-2-17-14-copy.pdf
The formatting gets lost when I try to transfer the article to substack, so please go to the URL above to read it. This very carefully researched and written paper reveals Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis caused for 40 years from poorly inactivated vaccines; 2 smallpox outbreaks occurring in the same UK lab, after which the principal investigator committed suicide, many SARS-1 lab escapes and much more. Really the seminal collection on this subject.
Thanks, Meryl, an important, unearthed article.
I appreciate your tireless work.
“In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.” Hillel, the Elder
Meryl, with due respect, this is a white paper, a review of reports by others, from a self-interested "center for non-proliferation", hardly an unbiased group! These are some of the people who clamor for biodefense dollars. I have not read the whole thing, only first few pages, but they contain a number of bad examples of fear mongering for money. Even if the summarized instances of the "lab escapes" are true, they hardly amount to pandemics. Smallpox examples: the largest was 80 cases - that's a pandemic? The H1N1 flu - in one of the examples, miraculously, pandemic is "restricted to under 21 year olds" - huh? what a marvelous very intelligent virus. Spanish flu has been utterly discredited by many authors. and other "avian" influenzas likewise. This paper is not evidence of anything other than the authors are asking for government dollars for "biodefense" and "nonproliferation". While I totally agree that no funding should be given for bioengineering of viruses (whatever that is), I also think the groups like the authors of this paper should have no funding either. Then this dangerous nonsense will stop.