Pandemic terrorism risk is being overlooked, warns leading geneticist

Kevin Esvelt, who created the primary synthetic gene drive able to wiping out a whole species, says the specter of a intentionally launched virus inflicting a pandemic is being missed

By Michael Le Page

The world should take the specter of pandemic terrorism extra severely, a number one geneticist has warned. Kevin Esvelt on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says the power to take the DNA sequence of a virus from a database, flip it right into a residing virus and deliberately infect folks with it’s an especially critical menace. He has now revealed a roadmap to assist counter this sort of bioterrorism.

It is only a matter of time earlier than a person or group desirous to trigger …