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The Wuhan lab (Pt 1): Mutant viruses and risky experiments
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The Dangers of Mutant Viruses
In 2016 Dashak announced to a New York conference that... Well I didn't do this work but my colleagues in China did the work. You create pseudoparticles you insert the spike proteins from those viruses shifted bind to human cells and each step of this you move closer to this virus could really become pathogenic in people. And by 2017 she's scientists had created a total of eight mutant viruses. One of the new mutants killed 75% of the mice within about two weeks and was three times as lethal as the original virus. So that's a gain of function that has worked it's made it much worse than the original virus they found in the wild. They brought into the world this thing
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