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Many people seem to believe that lab leaks are exceptionally rare: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...

That page offers "only" dozens of examples in recent times, but that is certainly going to be non-exhaustive and the potential magnitude of impact of a single of these incidents is difficult to overstate. Notably while the biosafety levels for each leak are not stated, at least two came from BSL-4 labs - the highest safety standard there is.

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