A Government laboratory in Maryland plans to make the circulating monkeypoxstrain more lethal in highly controversial research in mice.
The team wants to equip the dominant clade - which mostly causes a rash and flu-like symptoms - with genes from another strain that causes severe disease.
They hope the experiment will reveal how different genes make monkeypox more deadly, and spur the development of better drugs and vaccines for humans.
It comes just a week after DailyMail.com revealed a similar experiment involving a hybrid Covid strain was conducted at Boston University.
The latest monkeypox study is being funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a research arm of National Institutes of Health (NIH).
But the modified virus 'poses an exceptionally high risk' to the public if it accidentally leaks, according to Dr Richard Ebright, a microbiologist at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
The team in Maryland would argue their work does not involve 'enhancing' a pathogen because they are swapping natural mutations rather than creating new ones, meaning the hybrid cannot be more deadly than the existing clades.
But the news will no doubt surprise many Americans that such research continues to go on in the US despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.
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We need to GLOBALLY make and enforce laws to stop stupidity in Labs and hold accountable those that make worse that which can be cured at the level a virus is presently presenting itself, in my opinion! Vet the people better, and sever connections to pharma/politicians with Agenda's, etc.
The world, USA included seems to be on a trend that when things work, are not broken, are peaceful, there are those that seek to create things that don't work, are broken, will kill, do destroy, IMO~ So, it's a sick pattern bringing mankind into an evil most thought only those that went to Hell experience, right? Prayers for mentally deranged folks to be dealt with so they are not able to work where they inject their evil intent! Labs need scrutiny it is sounding like, as reputed by Articles info, IMO
Competent people need a comeback, fewer Leaders needed or none, and mankind needs GOD!
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