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- August 6, 2022
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Contagious and Deadly Influenza Strain Built in the Laboratory
Contagious and Deadly Influenza Strain Built in the Laboratory
The threat of a deadly flu virus wiping out a considerable number of people is always in the back of the collective mind of the medical community. The caution alarm was sounded just recently, when news broke that two scientists reportedly created a variant of the H5N1 flu virus (known colloquially as “bird flu”) that is highly contagious. When tested on ferrets, the ferrets transmitted the disease to one another by merely sharing the same air. This strain of flu has the mortality rate close to the wild version of the …
