who is the bioterrorist in this scenariohttps://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1456237103264813060 …
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yeah, and who do we think would have access to smallpox?
I know this is a joke but smallpox is easy to manufacture now because it only requires the bare DNA to become infectious. You can make it in any university lab.
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i imagine you have to get your hands on the DNA tho, probably fairly sensitive material
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It's built out of the regular DNA building blocks and the genome is in the public domain. I guess the researchers had to buy 30k-base-pair strands from a German lab to resurrect horsepoxhttps://www.science.org/content/article/how-canadian-researchers-reconstituted-extinct-poxvirus-100000-using-mail-order-dna …
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