• Question: What is the most dangerous virus you have worked with?

    Asked by puma449mad on 31 Jan 2022.
    • Photo: Samuel Ellis

      Samuel Ellis answered on 31 Jan 2022:

      Boring answer maybe, but just covid. My previous work was all with bacteria not viruses, but I was able to use some of the lab techniques I had learned to help out on a covid research project after the pandemic started. Never thought I would be would be handling nasty viruses, but that is often the case in science as you collaborate with new people!

    • Photo: Melanie Krause

      Melanie Krause answered on 2 Feb 2022:

      I worked with vaccinia virus which is a pox virus. It’s kind of the friendly brother of the evil small pox which was the deadliest virus that ever existed because it killed so many people. It’s not around anymore because of a global vaccination campaign :).
      Vaccinia can’t really harm you unless you have a severely weakened immune system or if you get it directly into your eye.

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