Tickling the Tail of a Sleeping Dragon: Chinese scientists have been experimenting with a mutant coronavirus strain that is 100% lethal in humanized mice freerepublic.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from freerepublic.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Scientists in Beijing - who are linked to the Chinese military - cloned a Covid-like virus found in pangolins, known as GX P2V, and used it to infect mice that had been humanized.
Recent weeks and months have seen a sudden surge of respiratory illnesses in China, leading to hospitals being packed out with sick children, and alarm at some of the parallels drawn with early days of Covid