Boston University scientists were today condemned for ‘playing with fire’ after it emerged they had created a lethal new Covid strain in a laboratory.
DailyMail.com revealed the team had made a hybrid virus — combining Omicron and the original Wuhan strain — that killed 80 per cent of mice in a study.
The revelation exposes how dangerous virus manipulation research continues to go on even in the US, despite fears similar practices may have started the pandemic.
Professor Shmuel Shapira, a leading scientist in the Israeli Government, said: ‘This should be totally forbidden, it’s playing with fire.’
Gain of function research – when viruses are purposefully manipulated to be more infectious or deadly – is thought to be at the center of Covid’s origin.
A Chinese laboratory located just miles from the first cluster of cases carried out similar research on bat coronaviruses.
But the practice has been largely restricted in the US since 2017.
Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, told DailyMail.com that: ‘The research is a clear example of gain of function research.
He added: ‘If we are to avoid a next lab-generated pandemic, it is imperative that oversight of enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research be strengthened.’
WHY does the Govt allow this !!! DUGH Should be Banned & Illegal to make this shhht !!!
Our Govt is funding it, and you know who is running our Govt ? barack hussein obama, that’s who.
covid 19 didnt kill as it should have and it had to be modified. Lets see how this pans out
Yes > Not Enough Americans especially the WHITE ones Killed last time , is how the dirty GOVT thinks !!!!!!
It was lab created to begin with and they know it. This only proves what China and our own complicit government is capable of doing.
Astonishingly, they are continuing to do so and admitting it. “No Gain of function research” what in the hell do you call this????
The best, most efficient way to Kill the most , even better than HITLER !!!!!! Not a shot fired !!!
Send the New one to CHINA & RUSSIA / NORTH KOREA / IRAN !!!!!
Wise up and stay away from any vaccines that our country or any other one is try to push on us again. DO NOT TAKE IT!!!! Hell, I won’t even get a flu shot now because I do not trust them.