Becker's Healthcare October 14, 2021
Erica Carbajal

The World Health Organization on Oct. 14 named 26 scientists from around the globe to serve on its new Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens.

The group will advise the organization on “the development of a global framework to define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging pathogens of epidemic and pandemic potential,” according to a news release.

Among the advisory group’s first tasks is to lead the revived probe into the origins of the COVID-19 virus. The team will specifically examine the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 could have emerged from a lab after findings from an earlier...

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