IS THE NEW STRAIN OF RABIES VIRUS GENETICALLY ENGINEERED?

At the link below you will read about a new strain of Rabies Virus that transmits in a different manner. I found this timely announcement to be extremely synchronistic. The article and film (speech on biosafety) below this post is very crucial to listen to before and or after you read the article at the link in this post. It is entitled "Lack of Biosafety Regulations"..."The Nightmare At Pfizer"

Becky McClain, an injured molecular biologist speaks about the changing Tropism of a virus. She talks about this briefly, using the example of the rabies virus. She explains that we have the technology to strip off the coat from any virus and to place any other desired coat onto these viruses. For example, she says....we can take an HIV virus and place a rabies like coat on this HIV virus and that now this virus would have the ability to infect through different routes. Now because it has a different coat, it can infect different types of organisms...like insects and mammals. When these are released into the environment...whether intentionally or accidentally, there is the real danger of increased chronic illnesses, metabolic disorders, clusters of cancers and possibly if the virus is replicating, it can cause an epidemic. These are difficult to detect and if the virus is not replicating you will not be able to identify it.

It seems odd to me that it is never mentioned in the media reports that these viruses we are seeing could be genetically engineered. If you already haven't seen the video at the end of the next post, please take the time and listen to it. Especially listen to it in relation to this latest news about rabies behaving in a different way.


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-rabies-evolution.html