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- noun A
skin disease ofmice , similar tosmallpox , caused by thepoxvirus Ectromelia virus
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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.
Janice Gable Bashman is interviewed by Jonathan Maberry 2009
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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.
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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."
DOES NEW FORT DETRICK "BIODEFENSE" LABORATORY REFLECT BUSH GERM WARFARE INITIATIVE? 2007
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Australian researchers recently proved this theory quite inadvertently when they incorporated an immunoregulator gene into the mousepox virus.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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The result was a seriously enhanced, monster mousepox virus that was more virulent than anything they had ever seen before.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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Australian researchers recently proved this theory quite inadvertently when they incorporated an immunoregulator gene into the mousepox virus.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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The result was a seriously enhanced, monster mousepox virus that was more virulent than anything they had ever seen before.
Blowback Brad Thor 2005
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The write-up looks back at how Australian genetic researchers accidentally created a mousepox virus of incredible virulence, it begins,
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This unexpectedly made the normally mild virus lethal in mice, even those that were naturally resistant to mousepox or had been vaccinated against it.
Ethical Technology 2009
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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.
Ethical Technology 2009
MaryW commented on the word mousepox
Richard Preston, The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story (New York: Random House, 2002), pp. 64-66
February 16, 2016