The Spanish Flu is still among us. The article is completely wrong.
Even so the only purposes I can see for “gain of function” research are bacteriological warfare and selling vaccines.
Influenza A, but a different strain.
“The article is completely wrong.”
You are right. These illnesses are in test tubes in many countries all over the world. The largest seller of biological weapons is China. The US is in the top five.
And the bad part is that the sellers are interested in cash, not convenience. China’s biggest customer that is on record is Iran. We don’t know how much work they do with Russia as they have become allies lately.
But it isn’t a lot different than the US association with the Ukraine as we have been assisting them with the construction of nuclear reactors for their “power plants.”
Clinton did the same thing with North Korea sending a number of supercomputers there for their agriculture help and they immediately upgraded them to weapons grade production. This is part of why they can hit Hawaii and the left coast of the US now with ICBM’s handed to them. The other part was the release of the MRV to China who gave it to North Korea to site their missiles. Russia provided the missile tech. It also got Sec Ron Brown murdered.
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