Scary story of the leak of the virus from laboratories Bashny.Net

The danger posed by potentially pandemic viruses, in case of leakage from laboratories has become the subject of considerable discussion caused by the "increased security" experiments. The obvious purpose of these experiments in which researchers manipulate dangerous pathogens -is the development of tools to monitor the natural emergence of pandemic strains.





The danger of artificial pandemic caused by a laboratory escape is not hypothetical: one occurred in 1977 in China. It happened as a result of transfer of pathogens to laboratory staff. Ironically, these laboratories were working with pathogens to prevent the flares themselves they ultimately caused. For this reason, the tragic consequences have been called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Modern genetic analysis allows to accurately determine the pathogens that show genetic changes over time, the emergence of a particular pathogen can be determined given a sufficient database of samples. If the pathogen appears in nature after what it has not circulated for many years or decades, we can assume that he escaped from the laboratory where were stored inert for many years without accumulating genetic changes, that is its natural development has been frozen.



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