The controversial quest to make a 'contagious' vaccine. A new technology aims to stop wildlife from spreading Ebola, rabies, and other viruses. It could prevent the next pandemic by stopping pathogens from jumping from animals to people. - Kotaku In Action 2

The controversial quest to make a 'contagious' vaccine. A new technology aims to stop wildlife from spreading Ebola, rabies, and other viruses. It could prevent the next pandemic by stopping pathogens from jumping from animals to people. (archive.ph)

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– Grumman 13 points 2 years ago +13 / -0

Wasn't this allegedly what they were trying to do in Wuhan, modifying a bat coronavirus so that it could be used to vaccinate bat populations against the original virus?

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– truenationalist 7 points 2 years ago +8 / -1

Yes And Omicron is another example of this. Genetically modified to be more contagious and released from a lab in Africa

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– WeedleTLiar 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Yes, but it wasn't even the original virus. It was a hypothetical virus they were trying to innoculate against, because there were no actual candidates that could have jumped to humans. They speculated as to what such a virus would look like, then created it at Wuhan.

Covid-19 is the unattenuated vaccine they created to innovulate against a virus that didn't yet exist.

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