A shipment of deadly viruses to China from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab was sent before an RCMP investigation into scientists at the lab, access-to-information documents reveal.
On March 31, 2019, live Ebola and Henipah viruses—classed as Level 4 pathogens, meaning they’re among the deadliest viruses in the world—were sent to Beijing on a commercial Air Canada flight from the lab in Winnipeg, Canada’s only P-4 lab. P-4 denotes the highest level of biosafety.
