Posted on 10/17/2022 5:41:11 PM PDT by John W
Boston University scientists were today condemned for 'playing with fire' after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory.
DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study.
The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.
Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: 'This should be totally forbidden, it's playing with fire.'
Gain of function research - when viruses are purposefully manipulated to be more infectious or deadly - is thought to be at the center of Covid's origin.
A Chinese laboratory located just miles from the first cluster of cases carried out similar research on bat coronaviruses.
But the practice has been largely restricted in the US since 2017.
Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that: 'The research is a clear example of gain of function research.
He added: 'If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened.’
In the new research, which has not been peer-reviewed, a team of researchers from Boston and Florida extracted Omicron's spike protein — the unique structure that binds to and invades human cells.
It has always been present in the virus but has become more evolved over time.
Researchers attached Omicron's spike to the original wildtype strain that first emerged in Wuhan at the start of the pandemic.
The researchers looked at how mice fared against the new hybrid strain compared to the original Omicron variant.
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Just wear da mask...you will be safe.
How do they know it has an 80% kill rate if its still in the lab?
Friggin college Snowflakes. Somebody got a chemistry set for their birthday.
The federal government should tape that place off and shut it down ...but no they’re probably encouraging it.
Mice.
Well, duh.
That's why they were doing it in Ukraine & China.
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“How do they know it has an 80% kill rate if its still in the lab?”
You have to read the article
I read that anyone with the “parts list” can make a deadly virus.
80 percent of the rats died.. with the omicron that is out now the rats only had mild symptoms
Just watch a week before the midterms it’s gonna “accidentally “ leak out
Depends what the goal actually is.
Boston U has already given us clueless AOC. I don’t trust them to have a clue how to do anything. They shouldn’t be testing anything.
How is a “kill rate” of 80% determined.
For the most part, Fauci aside, I don’t worry about the US developing this virus.
It is also be developed in China, Russia, Iran, North Korea and every other bad player in the world.
Deservers of the brazen bull!
Future report from Jobama’s CDC; Oh gee, it got loosed and escaped when someone blew up the lab.
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