"The samples were allegedly stolen from Unicamp's Laboratory of Virology and Applied Biotechnology. Such BSL-3 facilities are equipped with air filters and containment systems to allow researchers to safely study potentially lethal and inhalable pathogens."
"The community is 'perplexed', says Paulo Sanches, a virologist at São Paulo State University in Araraquara, Brazil. 'No sample can be removed from a lab with this biosafety level without authorization.'"
Soledad Palameta Miller, a virologist at Unicamp, was arrested for allegedly taking virus samples from a BSL-3 laboratory. The Brazilian police recovered the samples, which included chikungunya, dengue, and Epstein-Barr viruses. Brazil's National Health Regulatory Agency confirmed the samples posed no health risk. The incident has perplexed the virology community, questioning how such a breach occurred in a high-security lab. Unicamp is cooperating with the police and conducting an internal investigation while Brazil plans to build its first BSL-4 lab nearby.
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