What the… I’ve heard of illegal drug labs of course but illegal infectious disease labs is a new, worrying, one to me.

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    Is having hundreds of lab mice inherently illegal?

    ETA: Nevermind … less story to read than anticipated from Ars. I did audibly laugh at the big break in the case being a code violation for a garden hose. That’s like movie-level “how were they competent enough to pull the rest of this off, only to be foiled by a hose?” entertainment.

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      If done covertly without care for animal welfare it probably is, or I think it should be. Animal drug testing is already ethically dubious with oversight…