China's Alarming Experiment With a 100% Fatal Covid-Like Pangolin CoronaVirus (www.medindia.net)

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China has reportedly embarked on a controversial path of experimenting with a new Covid-like virus, characterized by a 100% fatality rate in mice. The unfolding scenario raises concerns about the potential risks associated with such experiments, especially the prospect of the virus spilling over into the human population.

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[-] Zworf@beehaw.org 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Is it possible that you could genetically-engineer a virus to both have a long incubation period AND incredibly high mortality rate? I’m sure it is

Case in point: HIV. We're lucky that was not airborne. The whole world would have been infected by the time people started dying.

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