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| Mouse manages to escape hapless Chinese laboratory worker by clinging on to the back of her hazmat suit for ten minutes while she searches for the rodent |
| 2024-01-19 |
| [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] A sneaky lab mouse in at a facility in China managed to escape a technician by climbing on to the back of her hazmat suit and clinging on for ten minutes while she desperately searched for it. CCTV footage from a lab in Shanghai shows the lab worker taking rodents out of their cages to weigh them when three of them jump out and escape. Lab technician Tian Yongyi frantically searches for the mouse, even lying on the floor to look under cabinets as the clever rodent clings to her and scrambles over her back without her noticing. The white mouse managed to avoid capture for more than 10 minutes before the lab tech eventually realised the mouse was sitting on her shoulder. Chinese animal testing facilities have come under scrutiny since allegations were first made about a 'lab leak' in Wuhan being the root of the Covid-19 outbreak. It comes after it emerged this week that Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100 percent lethal in mice — despite concerns such research could spark another pandemic. Scientists in Beijing — who are linked to the Chinese military — cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX_P2V, and used it to infect mice. The mice had been 'humanized', meaning they were engineered to express a protein found in people, with the goal being to assess how the virus might react in humans. Every rodent that was infected with the pathogen died within eight days, which the researchers described as 'surprisingly' quick. The team were also surprised to find high levels of viral load in the mice's brains and eyes - suggesting the virus, despite being related to Covid, multiplies and spreads through the body in a unique way. Writing in a scientific paper that has not yet been published, they warned the finding 'underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans'. Mice are the animals most commonly used in biomedical research around the world. China released its first national standards governing the treatment of lab animals in 2016. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #5 Well, the lab techs were well dressed. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-19 23:15 |
| #4 Where Daily Mail puts their fashionista writer on a oh, shit! story. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2024-01-19 11:48 |
| #3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_immunodeficiency_virus |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-19 09:38 |
| #2 Sounds like a Disney movie from back when Disney movies were fun. Aside from the lethal pathogen part, I mean. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2024-01-19 08:54 |
| #1 I should have posted here, thanks skid... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_immunodeficiency_virus |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2024-01-19 00:40 |