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by rubatuga 3268 days ago
To be fair, we do have examples of some superbugs, such as the Spanish Flu in the 1910s, where an influenza virus managed to wipe out a significant portion of the world. It would be considered by most to be airborne, infectious, and fatal. Maybe my optimism results from the fact that a supervirus has never been engineered (which I agree is fallacious), but I don’t think CRISPR, a research technique, even begins to encroach on the topic of genetically engineered superbugs.