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    "The most terrifying virus?" Little Morgan's eyes were suddenly attracted by this title.  At this time, he had just had lunch and was sitting in the sunny courtyard, basking in the sun and reading the newspaper.  So he suddenly saw such an article in the popular science column of the New York Times.  "What is the most deadly virus like? Is it one with a very high mortality rate? Once it attacks, you will be 100% dead and there is no hope of treatment? Such viruses do exist. For example, rabies virus, once it attacks, there is no hope of treatment.  The hope of cure, whether it is sulfa, or the antibiotics that have played miraculous roles in treating the wounded in recent years, or the bitter herbs concocted by shamans in Africa and Asia, or the devout priests.  Holy water, everything has no effect, and the patient will die from it 100% of the time, without exception (to this day, there is only one recorded case of rabies in the world that did not die from it, and this patient also died because of |£ü£ü£ü).  The novel virus destroyed the nervous system and turned him into a complete idiot. As for the reason why the patient did not die, the American hospital that treated him did not know.) However, such a deadly virus has never caused a large-scale epidemic.  The reason for the plague is very simple, because this virus relies on animals to bite people. This method of transmission is naturally very inefficient and is naturally not enough to bring about a great plague that sweeps the world (so, it relies on biting people.  The so-called zombie virus that spreads to bring about the end of the world is just a joke.) Historically, the most difficult transmission methods are airborne and contact transmission, and the second is through food and drinking water.  Representatives include smallpox, plague, tuberculosis and influenza, while the latter is represented by cholera Recently our doctors discovered a brand new influenza in Europe. Based on research, we believe that this cold has the potential to become  The potential of the most terrifying virus. As a type of influenza, its ability to spread is undoubted. According to the current situation in the two hospitals we have collected, this type of influenza has about 0.4%.  The mortality rate is about 0.1% (ordinary influenza is about 0.1%). Although this number is not large, considering the contagiousness of this virus, if a pandemic occurs, it may also bring tens of thousands of deaths  We suggest that once this virus is prevalent, every household should" "It's really interesting. What is the purpose of MacDonald's guy publishing such an article now?" Little Morgan thought.  McDonald has been deeply researching various infectious diseases such as influenza, which little Morgan knows.  After Scrooge MacDonald retired, he took up the title of professor of medicine at the University of Cleveland. As the first signatory, he published many papers in various journals, although little Morgan did not understand them at all.  But he knew that most of these papers related to viral infectious diseases.  Morgan's advisors told him that the McDonald's consortium's research on infectious diseases is definitely among the best in the world.  "Those guys who believe in MacDonald are definitely bastards who only know money. Do they want to scare people through this article and sell more things?" Little Morgan thought, "No, if they are planning to scare people,  This kind of publicity is far from enough. After all, the popular science section is at the back of the newspaper and is not available in every issue. Moreover, this article is not in a very conspicuous position. If you want to publicize and scare people, this is far from enough.  . Could it be thatwell, the old man said when he was alive that Old MacDonald was a complete hypocrite. He always wanted to do devilish things and pretend to be purer than the Virgin" "Androni  "Little Morgan said to his secretary, "There is something I want to ask you to do." "Sir, just give me your orders." The female secretary with brilliant blond hair and a delicate face bent down.  , gave little Morgan a cup of freshly brewed black tea.  "Dear Androni, please arrange for someone to go to Yale and ask Dr. Jamil whether it is possible to create a super terrible virus or germ through artificial means. And use it to create a plague.  "Morgan Jr. said.  "Okay, Mr. Morgan, I'll make arrangements right away." Androni said.  "No, there's no need to be in such a hurry." Morgan said, "Stay with me here and watch the sun. Whenever you remember this kind of thing in the past few days, just ask someone. Anyway, this matter is just a temporary thing for me.  Just out of curiosity," little Morgan replied.  ¡­ ¡­ ¡°Man-made plague? Oh, my God, how could you think of such a thing?¡± Dr. Jameel, a professor at Yale University School of Medicine, asked while shaking his head with a smile.  "Doctor, this is just personal interest." The person who asked the question also smiled and replied.  Dr. Jamil wrinkled slightly?Frowning, although it¡¯s a bit strange for a senior intellectual like him to answer such a pediatric question, considering that the gentleman who asked the question is a representative of a foundation, and many of his research projects are like this  It was supported by the National Foundation, so although his question was stupid, it still had to be answered.  "Mr. Bode, man-made plagues have happened in history. In the fourteenth century, the Mongols used trebuchets to throw the corpses of people who died of plague into enemy cities to spread the disease to the enemy.  Plague. Now, in theory, you can artificially create a plague by cultivating a large amount of pathogenic bacteria and then projecting it into the enemy's area in some way. However, Mr. Bode, the influenza you just mentioned is not the case.  "Not a suitable choice." "So, doctor, can you explain it to me?" Bode continued.  "Ah, Mr. Bode, do you understand the difference between germs and viruses?" Dr. Jamil asked.  "Well, it seems that viruses are much smaller than germs, right?" Bode answered uncertainly.  "This statement is correct." Dr. Jamil nodded, "However, one of the more important differences lies in the culture of viruses and bacteria. Germs are bacteria and can be cultured with nutrients such as agar.  But viruses are different. Viruses must grow in vivo, so it is very difficult to cultivate viruses. In addition, influenza viruses are even more special. Their research shows that almost all influenza viruses are.  Each influenza virus is different, and there are even obvious differences between the early and late stages of the epidemic. This shows that the virus mutates very quickly, and the reason for its mutation and the mechanism of mutation, we are referring to the entire epidemic.  Researchers in the world know nothing about it, so even how the virus reproduces and how it causes disease, we basically know nothing about it. So, Mr. Bode, create a virus that causes a plague as you imagine.  "It's almost impossible to have influenza as a consequence of sex."  Bacteria, is it possible to mass-produce them and use them as weapons to create a man-made plague? " "This" Dr. Jamil was silent. He was very suspicious of the questioner.  Do people really think about creating such a thing anymore? After all, in today's era, especially when the war is so fierce, people's moral limits seem to have been lowered a lot.  "Even if I don't say it, there will naturally be those guys who have no lower limit who will tell them, as long as they are willing to pay. Maybe if I make the difficulty and risk higher, they will give up such a terrible idea.  Right." Dr. Mill thought.  "Mr. Bode, in theory, it is not impossible, but the risk of doing so is very difficult to control. This risk refers to both the risk of the technology itself and other social risks. Do you think that during the research process, as long as  Any leakage will lead to a terrible disaster. Moreover, these things will be very difficult to control. There is no guarantee that they will not die in the hands of such a devil.  The effect of poisonous gas will not be limited to a certain region or a certain country, but will spread among all humans. This thing is like a devil in a bottle. It is easy to release it, but once it is released, it will  You'll probably hurt yourself" "Ah, Professor Jamil, thank you for your answer. I'm sorry that I delayed you for so long because of my personal interests." After Professor Jamil finished explaining, Bode said.  He stood up and said goodbye to Jamil.  ¡­ ¡°Donald, this is a report about the influenza virus that appeared in Europe. Take a look at it first.¡± Graystone handed the report to Donald.  "I don't look at it. I don't understand it well anyway." Donald said, "Gladstone, just tell me what's going on." "Okay, Donald, according to the report, although the fatality rate of this kind of influenza is higher than  The average influenza is four times higher, but this fatality rate is still not enough to cause a major panic. Of course, this thing may mutate and become more deadly in the future, but who knows?  But, did you know? Grandpa directly intervened and asked our pharmaceutical department to start hoarding anti-viral oral liquid materials and significantly reduce the sales of anti-viral oral liquid (anti-viral oral liquid has been introduced to the market and has even been sold.  It is widely used. After all, it is not cost-effective to keep a drug off the market to make money.) He seems to be very sure that this virus will mutate in the direction of a higher fatality rate." Gray Stone frowned.  said with a frown.  "Who knows? Maybe it's because ScooterUncle ?? has invested a lot of money in this project before, but now judging from the sales of antiviral oral liquid, although the cost is recovered, it is no problem to make a small profit.  But when it comes to efficiency, it is probably the least profitable business that my uncle has ever managed.  So maybe my uncle was a little unwilling.  "Donald guessed, "However, it is more likely that you know, neither of us combined is as smart as uncle"
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