Chinese Scientists Create Mutant Ebola Virus in the Lab That Causes Horrible Symptoms
In a controversial and eye-opening development, scientists in China have engineered a virus using components of the deadly Ebola virus to study its disease mechanisms and symptoms. T he research, conducted at Hebei Medical University, has been detailed in a study published in Science Direct. This experiment has raised both scientific interest and ethical concerns due to the potential risks and the horrific symptoms observed in the test subjects. The Experiment The Chinese researchers aimed to create a model that could safely mimic Ebola virus disease (EVD) symptoms in a laboratory setting. Given the extreme biosecurity requirements for handling Ebola virus—Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4)—the team opted for a safer approach. They used the vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV), a virus that infects livestock, and engineered it to carry the Ebola virus's glycoprotein (GP). This protein is crucial for the virus's ability to infect host cells and spread throughout the body. Horr...
