This is manifestly not true. Genetic engineering a bioweapon is not the only way to make it.
You can start with a known agent and use cultures or hosts to select for virulence, and you would be able to get surprisingly far. Just ask Japan.
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Kurzgesagt at it again. "Unless we restrict biological information and tools (to biotech companies and/or US-allied states), someone's gonna build a super plague in their garage."
Kurzgesagt at it again. "Unless we restrict biological information and tools (to biotech companies and/or US-allied states), someone's gonna build a super plague in their garage."
Kurzgesagt at it again. "Unless we restrict biological information and tools (to biotech companies and/or US-allied states), someone's gonna build a super plague in their garage."
Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-VT) refused to meet his constituents asking for ceasefire, so a gigachad stepped up and did what had to be done on our behalf
chemistry classes are hard and full of irrelevant bullshit because of Cold War hysteria about the USSR overtaking the West in science education
Bulletins and News Discussion from November 20th to November 26th, 2023 - Let Sleeping Dogs Milei - COTW: Argentina
Unfortunately, you are completely incorrect about ebola. It was a sheer miracle of fate Reston virus did not wipe America off the face of the earth in the 1990s. It is asymptomatic in humans - so far.
It would take minimal effort to either modify another virus in the ebola family to take on the airborne properties of Reston virus, or change the virulence in humans. I would not be surprised at all if that had already been done somewhere.