Comments by "Stephen Villano" (@spvillano) on "Dr. John Campbell" channel.

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  29. Honestly, it'd be a shorter list to count the BSL-2 labs not working with monkeypox. It's a slightly elevated concern virus that's an incessant annoyance. It spikes somewhat randomly, then falls to a low noise level, but thankfully, it's BSL-2 for a reason, it doesn't spread easily to humans and it's even worse at spreading between humans that aren't closely cohabitating. More exciting is the newer vaccines, which have lowered vaccine related illnesses from the 1% of vaccinia to something more along the lines of modern vaccines, which is so low as to have most physicians never see any significant events. Given that I suffered from a thankfully aborted progressive vaccinia as an infant, I take great relief in the new vaccines! One upside is, orthopox viruses tend to tightly conserve their genome, they are lousy at jumping species due to the nature of its tight conservation of its genome. That the lab doesn't have the virus available isn't surprising, as they may well not be a BSL-2 lab for that research and hence, the virus wouldn't be available to them any more than their remaining samples of variola would be available. Fragments that are assembled and installed into yeast, that's not anything that one needs be concerned with from a biosafety perspective. But, if they're configured at most for BSL-1 and monkeypox is BSL-2, yeah, not gonna happen. A fragment does not a virus make, reassortment or recombination be damned, given it's in yeast or are unpackaged DNA and hence, non-viable. But, if virologists working with viruses is bad, we should close all virology labs throughout the world, destroy their work and call it a good thing when the next pandemic kills in wholesale numbers. Of course, one can carry that illogic throughout technology until we're back in the stone age. BTW, what virology lab had the last outbreak of smallpox, after it was rendered extinct in the wild again? Janet Parker was the last fatality and because of that mess, proper oversight and planning for all BSL-4 facilities in the world followed. The University of Birmingham Medical School does win prizes for the rapid response, isolation and ascertaining root causes and leading the discussion on how to properly create such facilities!
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