Chinese Military-Linked Scientist Who Worked at Winnipeg Lab Creates Lower-Safety Ebola Surrogate

A lab technician handles samples in the P3, the Pasteur Institute's laboratory dedicated to the Ebola virus, in Bangui, the Central African Republic, on May 31, 2018. Florent Vergnes/AFP via Getty Images

A Chinese military-linked scientist who previously worked at Canada’s top biosafety laboratory has been involved in the engineering of a virus to replicate Ebola for conducting research in lower biosafety facilities.

Researching deadly viruses in lower safety conditions in China’s laboratories has been among the points of concern raised by scientists in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.