> blast and fire at russian lethal virus lab > vektor has one of the world's largest collections of viruses, including ebola... smallpox, bird flu and different strains of hepatitis   > neither can we exclude theft of pathogens during the chaos and aftermath of the explosion, or that the explosion itself was deliberate to enable theft > ...in the case of engineered or synthetic pathogens, previously unknown disease syndromes may occur.   > a potential ebola outbreak has been reported in a western part of the democratic republic of the congo... equateur province. > ... there are daily flights from equateur province to kinshasa, and flights from the capital to the rest of the world. > in addition to the possible ebola outbreak, there is an outbreak of marburg fever, caused by a related virus, in tanzania, which shares a border with eastern drc.   > the first severe case of bird flu in the u.s. is showing signs of mutation, stoking fears that the virus could become more transmissible among humans   > experts warn bird flu virus changing rapidly in largest ever outbreak > "something happened" in mid-2021 that made the group of viruses much more infectious   > a mutating strain of bird flu that has emerged in russia has a fairly high degree of probability of human-to-human transmission, the head of the countrys health watchdog warned   > bird flu... mortality rate estimated to be at approximately 60 percent   > russian researchers made a dna copy of the disease-causing parts of ebola, then grafted them into smallpox > ebolapox would give the hemorrhages and high mortality rate of ebola... plus the very high contagiousness of smallpox   > the potential of a super plague attack is high  
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