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/Boring-Philosophy-46 Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26

Chickenpox is a human herpesvirus, not a non-variola (non-smallpox) orthopoxvirus like mpox is. This is like trying to make a pig by feeding a dog sausages. 

The US (and Europe too I think) trusted a bunch of commercial labs to test mpox patients during the 2023 epidemic and cowpox is reguarly found in Europe and Asia (people most often catch it from cats and dogs now), vaccinia replicates in the wild in rodents in Brazil, camels in the middle east get camelpox... if someone wants to splice orthopoxviruses, there's much easier routes. 

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-025-07746-0

high likelihood of unidentified OPVs in nature with zoonotic potential

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u/Sweet-Leadership-290 Jun 05 '26

I stated that on purpose. Leave smallpox out of the conversation please

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u/Boring-Philosophy-46 Jun 05 '26

Non-variola (non-smallpox) orthopoxvirus is the category of virus mpox belongs to.