Rabies Could Mutate into “Zombie Virus” Says New Study – The Debrief

A new Italian study cautions that the rabies virus could mutate, either naturally or artificially, into an apocalyptic disease that turns humans into hyper-aggressive zombies.

Admittedly, the paper approaches the theoretical idea that, since the rise of COVID-19, the world must begin to think-out-of-the-box when it comes to large-scale epidemics. While rabies will not cause a severe zombie apocalypse today, the paper argues that it would be theoretically possible by either natural or arti cial virus engineering to produce a viral strain of rabies that could transmit human to human. It is possible that the virus could be tweaked to incubate faster, have enhanced neuro-toxicity, and a predisposition towards developing highly aggressive behaviors.

via thedebrief.org

I know! Let’s provide lots of taxpayer money so the boffins can research gain of function by the rabies virus! Maybe could discover if it is possible to turn it into an everything destroying, end of civilization virus. If it is, maybe they can get a few papers out of it. Don’t worry, they would never let it escape and if they did, they could semi-plausibly deny it.