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“Bacillus anthracis?”
Young-Joon frowned. A sense of uneasiness swept over him.
“Anthrax? Why is something like that at A-Gen’s headquarters?”
—I wouldn’t know. But that is not actually Bacillus anthracis.
“Then what is it?”
—Bacillus anthracis doesn’t have a sex, but that bacteria does.
“What kind of bacteria has a sex?”
—I don’t know. It seems like a very evolved organism that began from Bacillus anthracis.
“Did someone use Bacillus anthracis as a base and perform directed mutagenesis?”
—Perhaps. If so, they probably separated the males and females as a safety mechanism, so that it only has biological activity when the males and females are combined. But it is not dangerous because it is already dead. There are about one hundred thousand bacteria cells in that stock, but all of them are dead.
“But why would they have…”
Bacillus anthracis was a dangerous aerobic, spore-forming, and gram-positive bacteria inside the bacillus. The fatality rate varied depending on the type of infection, but the fatality rate in the case of respiratory infections was ninety-five percent. It was higher than ebola.
Fortunately, it was not easily transmitted by coughing. But when an infected person died, the region became contaminated, and because the contaminated area was not easily cleansed, it continuously caused infections over a long period of time.
The reason the bacteria was...
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