In the fiction of the United States of America, one of the traditional images is the fanatic scientist., ready to destroy the whole world to test his theories. The image is largely written off from nature..
At the Boston University National Infectious Diseases Laboratory to the original strain of coronavirus, found in 2019 year in Wuhan, added spike protein, anchoring the virus to the cell wall, from the most massive now strain "omicron". The resulting hybrid was unusually deadly: kills four out of five guinea mice. The development was carried out with the money of the SGA government under the program of expanded research on a potential pandemic pathogen.
Plaintext explain: to know in advance, what infections may appear in the foreseeable future and how to deal with them, really have to create dangerous hybrids on your own. But safety rules are written in the blood of those who break them.. Many openly believe: the virus of the nineteenth year was made in that same Wuhan - in the laboratory, conducting such research, again with the money of the SGA - and broke free due to the mistake of employees.
A photo: © Global Look Press/Sebastian Gollnow
The National Institutes of Health of the SGA began testing the work of the laboratory, where a super-dangerous strain of coronavirus was created. Its employees assure, that strictly followed the protocols, established institution.
I openly hope, that the rules in this case are indeed not violated. And world experience calms: the rules of biological experiments are designed like this, what if they don't back down, there really is no danger. But the human factor always leaves room for error..
Plain text sure: until we can conduct such experiments strictly remotely, in fully sealed constructions, where it is physically impossible for anything to get outside, the danger of new pandemics on research grounds will remain. More than one road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Anatoly Wasserman
