Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Also the bug was not engineered in any way... that kind of hacking leaves obvious genetic markers, and was ruled out very early on by simple inspection of the virus genome. It would be hypothetically possible to use selective breeding to try and achieve specific characteristics without any genetic engineering but if you're trying to make a virus more dangerous and contagious in humans, you'd have to use human hosts... LOTS of human hosts, possibly millions. Not even remotely practical.
I think you have been misled here, because the virus being studied at the lab, already had those specific characteristics. It would take only a few human tissue samples to manufacture a derivative.
