If you're a scientist or journalist promoting the benefits of virus hunting (in natural habitats, wildlife trade etc.) and manipulation in laboratories around the world, please practice some circumspection.
Millions might've died from precisely this type of research gone wrong.
Millions might've died from precisely this type of research gone wrong.
A lab-based outbreak doesn't require any fancy bioweaponry or shenanigans (e.g. serial passaging to select for cross-species airborne transmissibility) in the lab.
It can be as simple as scientists chancing on a dangerous natural pathogen in the wild and bringing it into cities.
It can be as simple as scientists chancing on a dangerous natural pathogen in the wild and bringing it into cities.
Top experts in virology and infectious diseases understand this. They know that viruses that have spent time in laboratories don't necessarily have to look different from what we see in nature.
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1481308041542877186
It's one thing for some experts to claim that the scientific consensus is that the #OriginOfCovid is almost surely natural.
It's another thing to advocate for more funding &/or less regulation of virus hunting +/- risky experiments that could lead to a future lab-based outbreak.
It's another thing to advocate for more funding &/or less regulation of virus hunting +/- risky experiments that could lead to a future lab-based outbreak.
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