NIAID and Scripps Institute publish a single nucleotide polymorphism that makes bird-cow flu more susceptible to humans–inviting the creation of new GOF bird flu’s by labs worldwide
A biowarfare shot across the bow. If the USG can't orchestrate the dissemination of BW agents through the WHO, NIAID will do it through Science magazine
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0180
All the authors are from Scripps—Kristian Andersen’s home base in La Jolla. All the funding came from 2 NIAID grants.
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Peter Hotez has been whining that pandemics are on their way, and this paper certainly makes a human bird flu outbreak much more likely. When do we stop this?