It’s like something you would expect out of a horror movie, but this story is unfortunately all true. A professor at a University lab – ignoring every virus-related thriller ever – recently created a strain of the H1N1 virus that can escape the human body and spread practically unchecked. Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka says that he wanted to study the virus so that he and his fellow researchers could get a better understanding about how viruses changed in nature and, like any good thriller movie requires, he did it in a lab with a relatively low biosafety rating.
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