Proposal: Stanford Scientist Warns of Risk From Alien Pathogens

What: NASA's Mars samples will be "quarantined and treated as though they are the Ebola virus until proven safe."
Details: In a report published last month, a team of scientists discussed how to ensure that human space travelers don’t contaminate distant planets — and that they don’t bring back extraterrestrial pollutants back to Earth, a topic that seems more pertinent than ever in the midst of a global pandemic.

“In my opinion, and that of the science community, the chance that rocks from Mars that are millions of years old will contain an active life form that could infect Earth is extremely low,” said adjunct Stanford professor of aeronautics and astronautics Scott Hubbard, co-author of the report, in an interview with Stanford News. “But, the [Mars] samples returned by [NASA] will be quarantined and treated as though they are the Ebola virus until proven safe.

Source1 : https://futurism.com/stanford-scientist-warns-risk-alien-pathogens
Source 2: https://news.stanford.edu/2020/05/07/new-planetary-quarantine-report-reviews-risks-alien-contamination-earth/
Source 3: https://www.nap.edu/read/25773/chapter/1
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