Swine flu, or H1N1, had been dead for 20 years when it suddenly reemerged in 1977 with a curious twist.

   Australia had 37,537 confirmed cases of H1N1 Influenza 2009   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_in_Australia

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  Swine flu, or H1N1, had been dead for 20 years when it suddenly       reemerged in 1977 with a curious twist.  The new strain was genetically similar to one from the 1950s, almost as though it had been sitting frozen in a lab since then.  Indeed it eventually became clear that the late-70s flu outbreak was likely the result of a lowly lab worker’s snafu….

  That worries people like Marc Lipsitch and Alison P. Galvani, two epidemiologists who write in a PLoS Medicine editorial today that creating these types of new infectious agents puts human life at risk.  They estimate that if 10 American laboratories ran these types of experiments for a decade, there would be a 20% chance that a lab worker would become infected with one of these new super-flus and potentially pass it on to others.    https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/05/when-viruses-escape-the-lab/371202/

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  before relaxing the guidelines on social distancing the U.S. urgently needs to expand its ability to test for the viru, and to shore up hospitals with sufficient supplies.  These recommendations are sensible, but they hinge on the expectation that the U.S. can recover the ground it lost due to its early inaction.  It might not be able to.  https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/pandemic-summer-coronavirus-reopening-back-normal/609940/

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5-29-17  In examining the entire genome from the CRISPR-treated mice they found that the tool had successfully corrected the specific gene they were targeting, but it also potentially caused a great deal of other genetic changes.  In two CRISPR-treated animals more than 100 large gene deletions or insertions and over 1,500 single-nucleotide mutations were identified.

 Most significantly, all of these identified mutations were not picked up by the general computer algorithms most researchers use to look at the off-target effects of CRISPR-editing.  There were no obvious or immediately deleterious effects in the animals from these unexpected mutations, but it is unknown what longer term effects the altered genes could have.    https://newatlas.com/crispr-gene-editing-causes-mutations/49762/

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   60% of Americans are rejecting protesters’ calls to reopen America while the coronavirus outbreak continues, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.  Just 22% say they support the protesters.  https://www.newsmax.com/us/protests/2020/04/21/id/963915/

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4-19-20  Dr. Luc Monagnier (translated):  Well, some of it, I’m not saying all of it, y’know. There’s a part which is obviously the classic virus and there’s another mainly coming from the bat, but that part has added sequences, particularly from HIV. The AIDS virus….No, it’s not natural.  It was a professional job.  It was a job for molecular biologists.  It’s a very meticulous job, you could say clockwork of sequences….There is a possibility that maybe they wanted to make--we don’t know who “they” are--but they wanted to make an AIDS vaccine.

  So a small sequence of the virus is taken and put into the larger coronavirus sequence….A very, very, very famous Indian research group had published the same thing and they were forced to retract it.

https://rairfoundation.com/breaking-nobel-prize-winning-scientist-coronavirus-was-leaked-from-a-chinese-laboratory-and-has-hiv-dna-watch/

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