In an effort to learn more about how viruses work and how to help design new vaccines, researchers used a natural selection type of process to create a virus based on H1N1, but one that would be resistant to vaccination. The sort of thing that, if it escaped the labs, could likely create a global pandemic. Yikes. I really question this line of research…though what scares me more is the potential for the same techniques to be used by sinister minds. Science is awesome…but we must maintain our respect for nature.
Researchers create pandemic-level H1N1 virus variant
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