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在位于马里兰州的美国军事医学研究所,研究人员正在紧张地忙碌着。他们在普通酿酒菌中接入一种在非洲和中东引起可怕裂谷热的基因,使酿酒菌可以传播裂谷热。他们正在进行的研究是过去科幻小说中才有的基因武器。
Researchers at the U.S. Military Medical Institute in Maryland are nervously busy. They have access to a common brewer’s bacterium that causes a gene that causes terrible rift fever in Africa and the Middle East so that wine brewing bacteria can transmit Rift Valley fever. The research they are doing is a genetic weapon that was unique to science fiction in the past.