>Australian gene engineers accidentally created a mouse virus that kills
every one of its victims by wrecking their immune system, a discovery with
the potential for making the ultimate terrorist weapon, New Scientist reports.
>The killer bug was invented quite inadvertently, while the researchers
were trying to create a contraceptive vaccine for mice as a pest control,
the British weekly reports in next Saturday's issue.
http://asia.dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/world/afp/article.html?s=asia/head
lines/010111/world/afp/Aussie_scientists_stumble_across_the_Doomsday_Bug.html
(I read about this in the Melbourne *Age* newspaper this morning.
Unbelievably, it's not listed on their web edition, although really
important stuff like the state of Princess Margaret's health is there.)
Damien Broderick
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