The federal government has actually ordered a questions into a study carried out in Nagaland by scientists from the U.S., China and India on bats and people bring antibodies to deadly infections like Ebola, officials verified to The Hindu
The research study came under the scanner as 2 of the 12 researchers belonged to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s Department of Emerging Infectious Illness, and it was moneyed by the United States Department of Defense’s Defense Risk Reduction Company (DTRA).
The research study, conducted by scientists of the Tata Institute of Essential Research, the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the Uniformed Solutions University of the Health Sciences in the U.S. and the Duke-National University in Singapore, is now being investigated for how the scientists were permitted to gain access to live samples of bats and bat hunters (human beings) without due authorizations.
