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> So a lab in fact has created a highly contagious flu virus This paper does not appear to support that. They indicate the source was an existing, in the wild
by Jtsummers 1y ago
> So a lab in fact has created a highly contagious flu virus
This paper does not appear to support that. They indicate the source was an existing, in the wild virus.
>> We isolated an HPAI H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b virus from wild birds in Korea with 96% E and 4% K at amino acid position 627 of PB2. To investigate the genomic characteristics of this clade regarding mammalian adaptation, we studied the replication and transmission of the H5N1 virus in mice.
- dogma1138 1y agoThat was the gain of function research. They infected mice with a wild strain that already was pre-positioned to better infect mammals used super high viral loads for that then watched as the mutations which promote mammalian infection evolved and exposed challenge mice to the newly developed strain.