America suffers a 'startlingly high' number of lab leak incidents at its top virus labs every year, data shows — amid calls for centers to slash the number of experiments carried out on diseases that could spark pandemics.Official data reveals more than 600 releases of 'controlled' pathogens - which may include anthrax, tuberculosis and - were recorded in the US over the eight years to 2022, equivalent to 70 to 100 releases every year.At least two US workers were infected after the 'release events' over the last eight years — including the crippling mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya and the bacterial infection Q fever — although no deaths were reported.
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