The Biden administration has pulled funding to DEEP VZN — a controversial program that sought to find and study 12,000 viruses in the wild.
was being terminated less than two years after its inception, amid opposition from lawmakers as well as a number of prominent scientists and public health experts.
A USAID spokesman said the funding was halted following a reevaluation of the “relative risks and impact” of various government-backed efforts to prevent future pandemics. The program, called DEEP VZN — short for the Discovery and Exploration of Emerging Pathogen-Viral Zoonoses program — was led by researchers from Washington State University with the aim of collecting nearly half a million biological specimens from wildlife, and from those, isolating at least 12,000 novel viruses for further study.
Supporters of DEEP VZN had said they hoped to be able to provide an early warning about wildlife pathogens that could someday make the jump to human beings. Scientists believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that sparked the coronavirus pandemic evolved from similar strainsBut opponents argue that the research was as likely to trigger an outbreak as it was to prevent one.
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