DailyMail article: "The University of Boston [...] adding that the research was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and the Boston Public Health Commission.
Original study abstract: "We generated chimeric recombinant SARS-CoV-2 encoding the [spike protein] S gene of Omicron in the backbone of an ancestral SARS-CoV-2..."
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Challenge #03961-J309: An Attempt Was Made
Biowarfare, one of the nastiest of all weapons. A dying person falls against Sunshine as he stalks a dereg world to hunt his target. The pale lips whisper "They're about to attack CRC, warn them." And hands the killer a file warning of the disease, engineered to try to circumvent the immunoflu. -- Anon Guest
The datachip was smaller than Mr Sunshine's fingernail. Light and small and easy to lose. Mr Sunshine added it to a case in his pocket. He knew better than to plug it into his datareader and look at its content then and there.
That way lead to inevitable betrayal. It could be a trap. To discover the truth, Mr Sunshine needed an air-gapped inforeader isolated from the rest of the network.
He didn't have time to thank the individual who pressed it into his palm. The stranger was gone. Blending with the huddled masses of this Deregger world in need of strategic readjustment. Mr Sunshine continued with his objective before returning to his CRC evac vehicle.
[Check the source for the rest of the story]
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Sometimes you need to heal your inner teen by fighting your brother who has a foot and 100 pounds on you.
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Fort Detrick’s Army Chemical Corps laboratory bred more than four million mosquitoes per day and released them in hordes around Florida, including near Carver Village. This was an experiment to determine whether these droning syringes on the wing—disease vectors, in medical parlance—could be used as first-strike biological weapons to spread yellow fever and other infectious diseases, ostensibly among foreign troops during wartime.
This was not the government’s first local exercise in such biological “friendly fire.” A similar 1955 experiment had also targeted a black area, but because it bordered a white development, people of both races were sickened: Such exposures had already tripled Florida’s whooping cough cases within a year, resulting in a dozen deaths after a whooping cough virus was released in Palmetto, on Florida’s west coast. Carver Village was more precisely targeted and was subjected to the same strain, which drove up 1955 infection and death rates; and 8 percent of these 1,080 whooping cough cases affected children nine years old and under. By 1960, Carver Village residents had been plagued by a rash of mysterious illnesses, including the symptoms of dengue and yellow fever, and deaths.
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speedran becoming the "uncomfortably dark sometimes" friend with new people by having mistimed my comment about giving monkey infants aids for when my stop was about to arrive and thus i couldn't provide literally any comedown from that intensely bleak statement
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actually did you all know that a lot of what tumblr circulates as historical fact is about as accurate as what the travelling bard tells you about India in the English pub at midnight on september fifth 1429 A.D.
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