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U.S. oversight of risky pathogen research has flaws, report finds

The program that keeps watch over the management of dangerous pathogens at research laboratories still isn’t up to snuff, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).GAO’s acting director for health care, Mary Denigan-Macauley, will discuss the findings at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight and investigations subcommittee on Thursday, alongside representatives of CDC and APHIS.