 a virus database disappearing in the middle of the night, large tender requests for a lab security force to, quote, handle foreign personnel, end quote, patents for a device to prevent a lab-acquired infection, rumors in the virology community of a new SARS virus in the lab, 30 vials of the three most dangerous viruses on the planet being shipped illegally from the lab in Canada to WIV in March, and then one of those pathogens being found as a major contaminant