Ein Universitätsprofessor und zwei Studenten stellten ein Virus nach, das mit dem Virus identisch war, das 1918 die verheerende Spanische Grippepandemie verursachte. Wenn sie es können, können es auch Terroristen.
https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/01/14/spanish-flu-killed-50-million-terrorists-can-now-create-synthetic-version-virus
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Like assembling a jigsaw, the researchers in this article were able to order all the separate pieces of DNA fragments to recreate the 1918 Spanish Flu virus from separate vendors.
To add to the worry of that, I’m guessing in coming years AI will amplify the capability of those with more limited skills, perhaps at the level of a few undergraduate electives in biochemistry.
Is the answer to this more rapid development and deployment of vaccines? That has sped up since Covid. But even facing H5N1 Bird Flu, it would still take several months to give everyone the correct mRNA vaccine at current production rates.
Maybe it’s a lesson we will have to learn that hard way after some bioterrorism catastrophe?
Not really a good method to do terrorism since it kills your families and loved ones too
It is also unclear what makes a killer influenza. There is a real chance it will have resemblances with more recent strains of influenza so mankind just happens to have immunity. Even if not, it might still not do much as today’s conditions don’t match 1918.
What is the specific issue that is so alarming? I didn’t read anything in the article about how this extends to novel, or otherwise horrifying, diseases.
The Spanish flu is like the windows 95 of flus; the yearly vaccine provides protection against it.
Bioengineering a virus to become a brand new murder machine is hard enough that anyone out to do it isn’t being thwarted by limiting access to out of date virus segments.
There’s one potential reason the Russian propaganda campaign in the USA is pushing the anti-vax agenda….