In a Wuhan-style study, Chinese scientists are experimenting on “humanized” mice with a mutant strain of coronavirus with a 100% mortality rate.
The deadly virus, known as GX_P2V, attacked the brains of mice that had been engineered to reflect a genetic makeup similar to humans, a report said. The research results were shared from Beijing last week.
“This highlights the risk of GX_P2V spillover to humans and provides a unique model for understanding the pathogenesis of SARS-CoV-2-related viruses,” the authors wrote.
The deadly virus is a mutated version of GX/2017, a relative of the coronavirus that was reportedly discovered in pangolins in Malaysia in 2017, three years before the pandemic.
All mice infected with the virus died within just eight days, with the researchers noting that the mortality rate was “alarmingly” rapid.
GX_P2V infected the lungs, bones, eyes, trachea, and brain of the dead mice, and the last infection was severe enough to eventually kill the mice.
A few days before death, the mice rapidly lost weight, developed a hunched posture, and became very sluggish.
The creepiest thing is that their eyes turned white the day before they died.
Alarmingly, this study is the first of its kind to report a 100% mortality rate in mice infected with the coronavirus-related virus, overriding the results of other previously reported studies. far more than that, the researchers wrote.
More importantly, the research results do not clearly show how it affects humans.
Francois Ballou, an epidemiology expert at University College London's Institute of Genetics, called the study “terrible” and “scientifically meaningless.”
“I don't find anything vaguely intriguing that could be gained by forcefully infecting a strange breed of humanized mice with a random virus. On the contrary, I don't see anything vaguely intriguing about how something like that could go wrong. Okay,” the professor said. I wrote it to X.
“The preprint does not specify a biosafety level…The absence of this information means that this study is a pandemic pathogen, similar to the Wuhan study that likely caused the novel coronavirus.” This raises the possibility that the potential research was carried out without essential…biosafety….”
Richard H. Ebright, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Lugar University confirms Ballou's concerns A simple “I agree”.
Dr. Gennady Glinsky is a former professor of medicine at Stanford University. I have written: “This madness must be stopped before it's too late.”
The 2024 study appears to have no connection to China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the center of lab leak theories surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the summer, U.S. intelligence agencies found no direct evidence that the lab leaked the coronavirus, but did not rule out the possibility that the virus came from another virus.
The origin of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is still unknown.
