The pandemic brought to light the risky research methods that the government had financed for years despite opposition. And yet, the US government is creating a deadly hybrid monkeypox strain.
In order to conduct extremely contentious research on mice, a government lab in Maryland intends to make the prevalent monkeypox strain more deadly.
The researchers hope to inject genes from another strain that produces severe illness into the dominant clade, which usually induces a rash and flu...
