Mousepox

BASHMAN: In 2001, a team of Australian scientists accidentally created a genetically engineered mousepox virus that killed mice by wiping out part of their immune system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In 2001, Australian researchers tried to create a contraceptive vaccine for mice using mousepox as a transport system; by accident, they created a killer strain of the virus, which wiped out the animals 'immune systems. ❋ Unknown (2007)

One alarming example of such Federally-funded research reported in the October, 2003, issue of "New Scientist," is the creation of "an extremely deadly form of mousepox, a relative of the smallpox virus, through genetic engineering." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Australian researchers recently proved this theory quite inadvertently when they incorporated an immunoregulator gene into the mousepox virus. ❋ Brad Thor (2005)

The result was a seriously enhanced, monster mousepox virus that was more virulent than anything they had ever seen before. ❋ Brad Thor (2005)

The write-up looks back at how Australian genetic researchers accidentally created a mousepox virus of incredible virulence, it begins, ❋ Unknown (2009)

This unexpectedly made the normally mild virus lethal in mice, even those that were naturally resistant to mousepox or had been vaccinated against it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Journal of Virology that while developing a contraceptive vaccine to control rodent populations they inserted a gene for an immune system protein into a mousepox virus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Diseases and viruses Is mousepox communicable to humans? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Variants of the initial cell line have been tested and found negative for ectromelia virus (mousepox), but most are susceptible to polyoma and simian virus 40 (