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A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. If they can do it, so can terrorists. (www.acsh.org)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Surely if we can easily generate a synthetic version of an old virus, we can similarly create a vaccine?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, it's the standard flu that we make a flu shot for every year. It's was just more deadly. Somewhere around a 3-6% lethality.