Damn, is WSJ usually this far behind?

This has been known and well covered by all sorts of outlets for...years?

I never thought it was that hard to make bio weapons? It's all over the internet and you can even find it in textbooks. College students are producing antibiotic resistant strains of non-infectious bacteria every day in bio labs. That's part of why they are so scary. Usually government agencies keep track of key supplies and machines that are used for this sort of research too. It seems like half the chemistry and microbiology content makers have been visited by the FBI.