No, you're not. To test if bat viruses can infect humans, they're taking the spike proteins of bat viruses and splicing them to backbone viruses. This new viru

No, you're not. To test if bat viruses can infect humans, they're taking the spike proteins of bat viruses and splicing them to backbone viruses. This new virus cannot replicate itself, it will only replicate the harmless backbone virus. As I wrote in another comment, it's like your arms are replaced with a chimpanzee's arms. When you have a baby, that baby will have human arms, not chimpanzee's arms, because the genetic material is not altered.