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Epidemiological indicators of accidental laboratory-origin outbreaks | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core

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By Stuart D. Blacksell, Sandhya Dhawan, Wirichada Pan-ngum, Chandini Raina Macintyre
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Keywords accidental pathogen releaselaboratory leakslaboratory outbreakspathogen escapesunnatural epidemic events Information Type Review Information Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 154 , 2026 , e16 Creative Commons This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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Epidemiological indicators of accidental laboratory-origin outbreaks | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core

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By Sandhya Dhawan, Wirichada Pan-ngum, Chandini Raina Macintyre, Stuart D. Blacksell
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Introduction Despite continual advances in biosafety and biosecurity policies, accidental pathogen escapes from laboratories continue to cause disease outbreaks in the community. The question is not if a pathogen will escape, but rather which pathogen will and what measures are in place to contain an escape with serious consequences [Reference Furmanski1].
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Origin of the H1N1 (Russian influenza) pandemic of 1977-A risk assessment using the modified Grunow-Finke tool (mGFT)

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By Fatema Kalyar, Xin Chen, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Chandini Raina Macintyre
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1 BACKGROUND On December 7, 1977, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) first reported cases of novel H1N1 influenza to the World Health Organization (WHO), which was later known as “Russian influenza” (Rozo & Gronvall, 2015). However, the H1N1 influenza strain of 1977 was initially identified in China, and it earned the name “Russian Influenza” owing to the Soviet Union's substantial involvement in both reporting and investigating the outbreak.
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