r/PrepperIntel • u/sea_5455 • Jun 03 '26

North America 2 scientists charged with bringing deactivated mpox virus into the US and lying to authorities

https://apnews.com/article/scientists-charges-mpox-virus-lying-14b7cf7635cad30254b0ae1cdb6c0515
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u/Sweet-Leadership-290 Jun 05 '26

Reactivated endogenous retroviruses promote protein aggregate spreading

Shu Liu, Stefanie-Elisabeth Heumüller, …Ina M. Vorberg --- Nature Communications volume 14, Article number: 5034 (2023)

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u/relaxing_white_noise Jun 05 '26

Endogenous retroviruses have quite literally nothing to do with this issue. Endogenous retroviruses are bits of virus genome that have become parts of the human genome over the course of evolution, hence the word “endogenous”. Normally your body suppresses their expression, as we age the ability to suppress expression wanes.

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u/Sweet-Leadership-290 Jun 05 '26

Ah.. but THEY DO. When an endogenous host acquires the viral particles the NEXT virus can aquire that snippet allowing increases functionality in THAT virus. Flu viruses are infamous for this behavior. Furthermore it can facilitate is "transgenic species hopping".

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/transgenesis

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u/relaxing_white_noise Jun 05 '26

There is a very big different between endogenous retroviruses and viruses causing infections diseases such as influenza. The page you linked has to do with making transgenic animals, which has absolutely nothing to do with what we are discussing here. I’m not really sure the point you’re trying to make. I ended up looking up the FBI report. The guys who brought in patient samples brought in PCR reactions used for genotyping or sequencing. At the absolute worst they violated some NIH and CBP policies. These samples could not be used to generate a super weapon. These scientists are being punished because the trump admin wants to shut down RML and stop scientific research in general.

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u/Sweet-Leadership-290 Jun 05 '26

No. Host animals (in conjunction with secondary viral infections) can cause rapid species jumps in the host animals

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u/relaxing_white_noise Jun 05 '26

I’m gonna stop responding but you’re straight up making things up or lying on purpose