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cord-021055-ebcu3ywq	Xu, Jianguo	Inaugural editorial: Towards evidence-based biosafety and biosecurity	2019-02-20		.txt	text/plain	826	61	42	China has experienced significant biosecurity and biosafety challenges and is the only nation that has been subjected to a bioweapon assault. 2 The SARS epidemic served as a timeous practical reminder to both China and the world that emerging infectious diseases could significantly threaten national and global safety and security. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] The 2004 SARS outbreak in North China resulted from a series of flaws in the biosafety protocol at a national institute in Beijing, 5 resulting in infection of four laboratory workers. We propose that the scope of biosecurity and biosafety should include all relevant areas with the potential to cause death, social disruption and panic, economic breakdown, and/or national crisis (e.g. emerging infectious diseases, bioweapons, bioterror, laboratory biosafety, antibiotic-resistant bacterial super-strains, harmful invasive plant or animal species, misuse of synthetic biological technology, misuse of human genetic information, etc.).	./cache/cord-021055-ebcu3ywq.txt	./txt/cord-021055-ebcu3ywq.txt