Canadian scientist sent deadly viruses to Wuhan lab months before RCMP asked to investigate

CBC News has learned that a Canadian researcher escorted out of Winnipeg's National Microbiology Lab over a possible policy breach also sent dozens of vials of deadly viruses to the controversial Wuhan Institute of Virology, four months earlier. Experts say Ottawa needs to be more transparent about what happened.

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