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Friday, Aug. 2, 2024

Is a Colorado university planning to breed bats to study infectious diseases?


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$6.7 million The building’s primary function will be to breed “virus-free, disease-free bats” that will be used by CSU researchers and also be sent to other universities and government agencies, the said.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CSU officials that the university “has no plans to conduct gain-of-function infectious disease research with bats that could increase the transmission of a virus or other pathogens to humans.”

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