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The Wuhan Virology Lab recently assembled Monkeypox strains to create contagions
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:37 pm
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:37 pm
The National Pulse
Great, so here’s that lab popping up again potentially ruining the world.
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology assembled a monkeypox virus genome, allowing the virus to be identified through PCR tests, using a method researchers flagged for potentially creating a “contagious pathogen,” The National Pulse can reveal.
The study was first published in February 2022, just months before the latest international outbreak of monkeypox cases which appear to have now reached the United States.
The paper, which was authored by nine Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers and published in the lab’s quarterly scientific journal Virologica Sinica, also follows the wide-scale use of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests to identify COVID-19-positive individuals.
Researchers appeared to identify a portion of the monkeypox virus genome, enabling PCR tests to identify the virus, in the paper: “Efficient Assembly of a Large Fragment of Monkeypox Virus Genome as a qPCR Template Using Dual-Selection Based Transformation-Associated Recombination.”
Monkey pox viruses – referred to as “MPXVs” in the paper – have strains that are “more pathogenic and [have] been reported to infect humans in various parts of the world.”
“Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is the gold standard for the detection of orthopoxvirus (including MPXV). For pan-orthopoxviruses detection, the E9L (DNA polymerase) gene has been shown to be an excellent target for qPCR assays. For MPXV detection, Li et al. reported that the C3L (complement-binding protein) gene could be used as the qPCR target for the MPXV Congo Basin strain,” explained the paper before noting that China lacked sufficient genetic information on the virus for PCR detection:
“Since MPXV infection has never been associated with an outbreak in China, the viral genomic material required for qPCR detection is unavailable. In this report, we employed dual-selective TAR to assemble a 55-kb MPXV genomic fragment that encompasses E9L and C3L, two valuable qPCR targets for detecting MPXV or other orthopoxviruses.”
“The primary purpose of assembling a fragment of the MPXV genome is to provide a nucleotide template for MPXV detection,” reiterated the study, which relied on the process of transformation-associated recombination (TAR) to isolate a genomic fragment of the monkeypox virus.
“As an efficient tool for assembling large DNA fragments up to 592 kb in length, TAR assembly has become essential for preparing infectious clones of large DNA/RNA viruses,” explained researchers.
The paper acknowledged that TAR “applied in virological research could also raise potential security concerns, especially when the assembled product contains a full set of genetic material that can be recovered into a contagious pathogen.”
Great, so here’s that lab popping up again potentially ruining the world.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:40 pm to OMLandshark
COVID 2: The Monkey Dance
It's back
And it's PISSED OFF!
It's back
And it's PISSED OFF!
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:43 pm to OMLandshark
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Great, so here’s that lab popping up again potentially ruining the world.
Wait a minute. It's not the lab's fault a chimpanzee ate a bat from a wet market just hours before being flown to Europe to participate in a gay orgy. Thank goodness the lab is there to help get a jump on developing a vaccine. But for now, we should just shut things down a bit....two weeks ought to be plenty of time.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:45 pm to OMLandshark
And monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:46 pm to OMLandshark
Maybe it’s a bad disease that is extremely rare and hard to catch.
What are they hiding? It’s not some secret lab.
What are they hiding? It’s not some secret lab.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:47 pm to OMLandshark
Can this lab be taken out by a "Sword of Damocles" type of high tech weapon.
Don't threaten, just cut the single hair of a horse's tail and let it fall.
Don't threaten, just cut the single hair of a horse's tail and let it fall.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:51 pm to OMLandshark
Just don't have gay sex in bath houses and you should be fine.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:55 pm to sawtooth
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Maybe it’s a bad disease that is extremely rare and hard to catch.
What are they hiding? It’s not some secret lab.
They don't want to scare the gheys, who are passing it to each other, just before their month kicks off.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 2:58 pm to OMLandshark
Why hasn't this place received a stinger missile by now?
Posted on 5/23/22 at 3:04 pm to SidetrackSilvera
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And monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC.
strikethrough And monkey's /strikethrough brains, strikethrough though popular in Cantonese cuisine,/strikethrough are not often to be found in Washington DC.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 3:13 pm to bamarep
quote:A 2000lb JDAM would be better, but I get it.
Why hasn't this place received a stinger missile by now?
Posted on 5/23/22 at 3:17 pm to bamarep
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Why hasn't this place received a stinger missile by now?
Honestly war should be on the table for any lab that does Gain of Function research or 3D prints a virus. All it takes is for one shitty lab assistant or a single psychopath to unleash the apocalypse. Nuclear war at least has quite a few people it needs to get through in order to come to fruition, but not a viral pandemic.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 3:19 pm to OMLandshark
eventually that place is going to have to be destroyed
Posted on 5/23/22 at 3:29 pm to OMLandshark
Back in the 80s, when AIDs was raging, my wife and I watched a program on TV about its origin and spread. There was a female MD, who had been a Dept head at a San Francisco Hospital, presenting the information.
She had a map of Africa with markers indicating sites of AIDs outbreaks. Then she produced an overlay where the UN Health authorities had vaccinated for SmallPox. They were a perfect match.
She had a map of Africa with markers indicating sites of AIDs outbreaks. Then she produced an overlay where the UN Health authorities had vaccinated for SmallPox. They were a perfect match.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 4:02 pm to Alt26
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But for now, we should just shut things down a bit
We should have shut down Wuhan with a tomahawk missile over 2 years ago
Posted on 5/23/22 at 4:03 pm to OMLandshark
Somebody needs to drop a MOAB on that lab.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 4:07 pm to SidetrackSilvera
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And monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington DC.
Posted on 5/23/22 at 4:32 pm to alphaandomega
we funded that lab, why would we destroy it?
Posted on 5/23/22 at 4:36 pm to OMLandshark
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Great, so here’s that lab popping up again potentially ruining the world.
So far it looks like they are only getting ready to market monkey pox PCR tests. If anything more happens, I'm sure it will be from monkeys in the wet market.
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