Mail Online
A super-strain of bird flu that could infect
and wipe out millions has been developed in a laboratory.
Dutch scientists who created the ‘Armageddon
virus’ say it is ‘probably one of the most dangerous viruses you can make’.
Their research focused on what it took to
convert bird flu – which can kill more than half of those infected but does not
spread easily – into a highly contagious virus.
They said this knowledge would be vital for
the development of vaccines and drugs to prevent a possible pandemic.
But others argue the virus should never have
been created – and warn the potential if it escaped from the lab is
‘staggering’. There are also fears the recipe will be seized on by terrorists
looking for a biological weapon.
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