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Risky research: making diseases more deadly

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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How to Make a Pendamic Virus Resusceptible

Scientist Ron fouchet has created a virus that replicates in the upper respiratory tract of mammals. He used evidence from previous pendemics, or avian virus s changed and then cot infection s. And so what we did in is to put it into a mammal and let the virus adapt to the mammal for a few rounds,. Then take that virus, and then that virus will become transmissible. We've actually got a clip of ron fouchet talking to us at that conference where he announced he'd be doing the work.

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