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Researchers carefully protect dangerous pathogens – but how secure are all their data?

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imageThe pathogens are secured, but are the data about them as well-protected?Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and many others: the most dangerous microorganisms are strictly regulated in the United States. The federal government oversees use of 65 so-called select agents with “the potential to pose a...

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