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To: Bill who wrote (1434067)	1/18/2024 11:57:45 AM
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China toys with deadly new COVID strain: When will the madness end? China’s virologists are at it again, shamelessly playing with a new coronavirus that’s 100% lethal in human-transgenic mice. What will stop this madness? Scientists at high-level labs in Beijing and Nanjing pumped mice (with their genes altered to resemble human ones) full of a lab-cultivated strain of GX/2017, a COVID cousin first discovered in pangolins three years before the pandemic. Every mouse thus infected died an agonizing death. Worse, experts around the world fear that the labs lack adequate biosafety measures — since the Chinese researchers’ initial report of their findings didn’t specify anything about safety measures. Responsible science this isn’t: Says Francois Balloux, an epidemiology expert at University College London, “I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanized mice with a random virus. Conversely, I could see how much stuff might go wrong.”