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2024-05-10 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese scientists create mutant Ebola virus to skirt around biosafety rules - and it causes horrific symptoms and kills group of hamsters

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Posted by Frank G 2024-05-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [223 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 In my experience, Chinese "scientists" are superbly trained technicians with no imagination, intuition, and terrifying narrowness of vision. Since they are also insanely competitive - leading to cutting corners (e.g. bet you they didn't bother to check if the engineered virus is infectious to humans), these are very bad news.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-05-10 03:24|| 2024-05-10 03:24|| Front Page Top

#2 Spot on #1. In a few words you covered it all very accurately. Cutting corners to save money in nearly everything. I have seen this in the medical field though my experience was limited. I would include Pakistanis. I would have to add Pakistanis well known for quality surgical instruments.

Posted by Dale 2024-05-10 05:43|| 2024-05-10 05:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Life has always been short for lab rats.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-05-10 08:00|| 2024-05-10 08:00|| Front Page Top

#4 maybe concentrate on curing "existing diseases" instead of trying to cook up 'new diseases."

Posted by Wholuns Barnsmell3679 2024-05-10 08:16|| 2024-05-10 08:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I am getting gah dam tired of my cookie disappearing due to no action on my part...

Posted by M. M 2024-05-10 08:19|| 2024-05-10 08:19|| Front Page Top

#6 OTOH, it's early and if this is the extent of my problems today I have nothing to complain about.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-05-10 08:26|| 2024-05-10 08:26|| Front Page Top

#7 Just remember, this is only what we're hearing about, and the truth is likely much worse.
(I'm just a little ray of sunshine...)

Posted by ed in texas 2024-05-10 08:29|| 2024-05-10 08:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Thanks Ed! I'm gonna go try to get a good night's sleep then.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-05-10 08:51|| 2024-05-10 08:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Fortunately, the nuclear fires are likely to kill the virus.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-05-10 09:39|| 2024-05-10 09:39|| Front Page Top

#10 First the Monkeypox, now Chibola. Hamsters getting a rough go.

Good to see DM admit Chyna does bioweapon stuff.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-05-10 11:43|| 2024-05-10 11:43|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree with #1 in a good lab. Under poor supervision or given poor lab material conditions, any communist worker will still try to meet the goal or quota to avoid punishment. I think that is what we are seeing in some of the clandestine labs.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-05-10 13:05|| 2024-05-10 13:05|| Front Page Top

#12 A team of researchers at Hebei Medical University used a contagious disease of livestock and added a protein found in Ebola, which allows the virus to infect cells and spread throughout the human body.

I.e. they have done Gain of Function by adding an Ebola protein to a different virus' proteome.

Why would one expect any effective vaccination/antiviral medication to do anything about the original Ebola disease which is caused by the original Ebola virus?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-05-10 22:14|| 2024-05-10 22:14|| Front Page Top

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