Looking toward the spoilt event scenario for theswine flupandemic , virologists in Lyon are attempting to create a computer virus as contagious as swine flu and as deadly asavian flu . Is it time to call in Bruce Willis yet ?
Researchers at the Jean Mérieux / INSERM facility in Lyon , France , are working with the highly contagious H1N1 computer virus and its more lethal relation H5N1 , better know as the avian flu . The scientists are undertake to determine if H1N1 could reassort with H5N1 , blending their genetical material , and whether a resulting computer virus could have the worst trait of the original computer virus .
There ’s a method acting behind creating this superflu . The facility has been work to anticipate the path current and future pandemic might take so that precautions and treatments can be developed . The team is attempting to determine when reassortment between the two virus would produce a executable product , and which reassortments — if any — are likely to occur .
Jean Mérieux / INSERM is a biosecurity degree four adroitness , and the research worker must fatigue spacesuit - like hazmat garb when in the lab , but the researchers must find out out for scrape and pungency from the mice and ferrets used to test the virulence and transmissibility of the computer virus .
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