Inside America’s New $12m Taxpayer-Funded Bat Lab in Colorado: Research Facility to Import Bats from Asia and Study Deadly Diseases
The National Institutes of Health has granted Colorado State University $6.7 million to construct a 14,000 square-foot bat research lab. The facility, in collaboration with EcoHealth Alliance, will import bats from around the world and study the most transmissible pathogens, including Ebola, Nipah virus, and Covid-19. But some Republican Senators worry that the potential lab, …