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New dangers? Computers uncover 100k novel viruses in old genetic data
- ipspam 5y agoGreat! We can get Daszuak'ed once again! Of course all these will be recreated in lab, and passaged through humanized mice to figure out how much of a danger these are to humans. Then they will leak. 60+ BSL-4 labs, uncountable thousands of BSL-3 labs. Tick-tock! "The work expands the number of known viruses that use RNA instead of DNA for their genes by an order of magnitude. It also “demonstrates our outrageous lack of knowledge about this group of organisms,” says disease ecologist Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance,"