State Department, USAID endorsed novel virus project with China despite national security risks

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State Department, USAID endorsed novel virus project with China despite national security risks

Viral sampling supported by USAID is shown in 2018. (Photo: Flickr) The State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) strongly backed a controversial research project with China into novel viruses in 2019 even though it created new biosecurity risks, documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show. The Global Virome Project (GVP) was designed to discover and catalog thousands of novel viruses that cou…