After two teams genetically tweaked the h5n1 avian flu virus in 2011 to make it more transmissible in mammals, biosafety experts voiced concerns about “gain of function” research—experimental research that involves altering microbes in ways that change their transmissibility, pathogenicity, or host range. An examination of how the media has covered the theory that it escaped from a chinese lab, and why it's getting more attention. Sep 24, 2024 · unidentified actor #1: In february 2020, more than two dozen scientists published a statement in the medical journal lancet, calling the lab leak hypothesis a conspiracy theory that would jeopardize global. Mar 1, 2022 · conspiracy theories made it harder for scientists to seek the truth:
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