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https://archive.ph/eYLVN https://archive.ph/W5hth Some really important information on how likelihood being a function of both probability and also time. https://gab.com/Flavinkins/posts/109092369243687059 Some examples of epidemics and pandemics caused by altered viruses. Also https://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2398/rr/599724 (The RSV pandemic is linked to polio vaccine preparations contaminated by “Chimpanzee coryza agent” in the labs where batches of attenuated poliovirus is first inoculated into chimpanzees for verification of nonpathogenicity before being expanded in culture for vaccine preparation—the first discovery of RSV is in locations with intense polio vaccinations, not locations where chimpanzees lived) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10472327/ (SV40 contamination of oral polio vaccines) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Marburg_virus_outbreak (Marburg is considered to be poorly transmissible in the general public because of the excessively high infection fatality rate and fast progression of disease. Nevertheless, transmission amongst lab workers lead to an (brief) epidemic that ended up with 32 cases and 7 deaths in 2 countries in Europe) The 2 (known) CAS grants that was of the exact same scope as DEFUSE: https://web.archive.org/web/20180911062420/https://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2018/9/417376.shtm https://archive.ph/X0gcR https://archive.ph/SNZkm https://gab.com/Flavinkins/posts/108808844066927838