Safety concerns at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus.
In the statement, the C.D.C. cited “national security reasons” as the rationale for not releasing information about its decision.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html

The institute is a biodefense center that studies germs and toxins that could be used to threaten the military or public health, and also investigates disease outbreaks. It carries out research projects for government agencies, universities and drug companies, which pay for the work. It has about 900 employees.

The suspended research involves certain toxins, along with germs called select agents, which the government has determined have “the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health or to animal or plant products.” There are 67 select agents and toxins; examples include the organisms that cause Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague, and the poison ricin.

In theory, terrorists could use select agents as weapons, so the government requires any organization that wants to handle them to pass a background check, register, follow safety and security procedures, and undergo inspections through a program run by the C.D.C. and the United States Department of Agriculture. As of 2017, 263 laboratories — government, academic, commercial or private — had registered with the program.

oohhhh, my god

It is time that ALL research into weaponized microbes, is outlawed worldwide. The Coronavirus escaped from a biological weapons lab in Wuhan China, and now with over 2 million deaths worldwide, the end of the rampaging pandemic is STILL not visible on the horizon.

Ban chemical weapons, and biological weapons forever. There are enough conventional and nuclear weapons in the arsenals of developed nations, to wipe out our planet's entire population several times over, so there simply is no need for more death technology.