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Are you trying to say viruses escaping labs is "just fiction"? ... It's not.

• Dylan16807 5y ago
  "just fiction" is talking about the earlier reference to jurassic park, in contrast to viruses escaping. A virus without any genetic code contents isn't going to "find a way" to reproduce.
  • kbelder 5y ago
    It happened at least once.
    • Dylan16807 5y ago
      What did? Viruses escaping a lab, or a gene-free virus infecting a cell and causing it to make more of that virus? I don't think the latter has happened. If I really stretch, maybe something could trigger a reactivation of a virus that's burned into your DNA? But that can't give you a new virus, and such a reactivation could happen on its own without help. Or if you were implying something about the origin of viruses, I disagree and don't think the mechanism we're talking about was part of that story.