Special Episode: Recipes for Future Plagues
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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Characterizing Pandemic Threats
This chapter explores the intricate process of characterizing viruses to assess their potential for causing pandemics. It covers crucial experiments aimed at understanding viral binding, infection, replication, and transmission in order to identify high-risk viruses among a vast array of undiscovered species. Additionally, the chapter discusses the implications of data sharing and the security risks associated with making viral genomes publicly accessible, highlighting the threat of engineered pandemics.
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