Lab accidents have caused disease outbreaks before, and accidents are more common - and kept more secret - than you think.

We Meet:

Alison Young, journalism professor, Missouri School of Journalism

Gigi Gronvall, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and associate professor Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Links:

Biolabs in your backyard, USA Today

The Reemergent 1977 H1N1 Strain and the Gain-of-Function Debate, Michelle Rozo & Gigi Gronvall, ASM Journals

Influenza: Old and New Threats, Peter Palese, Nature Medicine

Credits:

Curious Coincidence was produced as part of MIT Technology Review's Pandemic Technology Project, which is supported in part by a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation.

The series was created by Antonio Regalado and Jennifer Strong and produced by Anthony Green, Luke Robert Mason and Lindsay Muscato, with help from Emma Cillekens. The executive producer is Golda Arthur.

Theme music was composed and recorded by Jacob Gorski, with Ben Tolliday on cello and Ben Haeuser on woodwinds. The episodes contain original scoring and sound design by Garret Lang.

Art direction by Eric Mongeon with illustration by Selman Design.

The series was edited by Michael Reilly, David Rotman and Jennifer Strong, with fact checking by Matt Mahoney.