As scientists strive to recreate the deadly Spanish influenza and study anthrax in labs, there is always the risk of something escaping into the wider world. Or is there? Telling us whether lab biosafety really is as Hollywood imagines it, is Professor Sazaly Abu Bakar, virologist.

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