Cancer-causing virus could have escaped

Title

Cancer-causing virus could have escaped

Genre

Interview

TX Date

4 Feb 1994

Year of production

1994

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Duration

00:01:34

Description

Local Health and Safety Executive Director, Peter Ward on the possible risk posed to public health by a cancer-causing virus which might have leaked out of a Birmingham University laboratory had the research not been halted. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Peter Ward

Keywords

Viruses; Health; Occupational health and safety; Cancer; Medical research; Universities; Health and Safety Executive; Birmingham University

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