https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/eastern-equine-encephalitis
38 Are there any new biothreats on the horizon? Several potential biothreats are possible due to the ability to manipulate existing pathogens with biotechnology. Examples of this are VEEPOX and EBOLAPOX.
Preston R: The bioweaponeers. Annals of Warfare, 1998: www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/articles/bioweapons.htm
39 What is VEEPOX? What are its characteristics? VEEPOX is a chimera of smallpox and Venezuelan equine encephalitis. This combination results in the following characteristics:
▪ Highly disabling to populations
▪ Headache, disorientation, severe malaise, near coma status
▪ Disabling but not generally lethal
40 What is EBOLAPOX? What are its characteristics? EBOLAPOX is a chimera of the Ebola virus and the smallpox virus. This is a particularly nasty combination with the following characteristics:
▪ It can be replicated in test tubes or animals.
▪ It can produce a disease called blackpox, a form of hemorrhagic smallpox.
▪ It combines the high mortality of Ebola virus with the high contagiousness of smallpox
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It's doable
I commend your work in putting that post together. It's still true that the current virus is complex and not likely man made. Although, I think it might be possible. It seems highly unlikely to design and build such an organism when we haven't yet perfected the technology to do so. Nanotech will evolve to that point though, some day. That's is concerning.
If nature is the maker of that weird ass coronavirus... How did nature do? Crossbreeding right? Nature doesn't have a magic wand
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How hard would that be to "speed up" the cross breeding process in a lab? And to also orient it, through strain selection?
Not that hard, it doesn't even require extraordinary tech
Nature rolls dices, we can roll dices faster
How did any of us get here? Why does the universe exist. Why does the universe expand as if it's alive?
https://www.newscientist.com/term/what-is-crispr/
Been in the works for a long time.
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