Canada

He doesn't need to be right.

Cancer doesnt have to be correct to spread, it just has to take hold in enough places to become a real problem.

There's a whole lot of bullshit going on around this story. People are acting like she violated national security interests, but they can't articulate how. Like she shipped ebola to wuhan, but she wasn't fired for that because cooperation with high level labs is kind of important (and I'm sure wuhan already HAD a sample of ebola before she even shipped it). The findings she shared would've been shared eventually(and the reason it started a kerfluffle is because China shared them and included her in as a co-author in a paper and included her in patents for ebolavirus treatments). You can still say she was working "against Canada" if you really want to twist it, but that's not really what happened. She violated policy and got fired, then said the firing was unjust. The potential damage to Canada comes from intellectual property interests but there's not much money in treating Ebola in the first place.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ebola-henipah-china-1.5232674

Researchers working at the National Microbiology Lab on cutting-edge, high-containment research are not allowed to send anything to other countries or labs without the intellectual property office negotiating and having a material transfer agreement in place, in case the material sent leads to a notable discovery.

I sure hope people are sharing this research with Zimbabwe. They've got endemic marburg virus to deal with. The frank truth is, for something like Ebola, sequencing it isn't going to change how you weaponize it. You weaponize it by breeding it and then blowing it up at low heat so it spreads over a large area. Any contact with it leads to infection, it's a nasty bug.

This is different, than say, anthrax weaponization. You can go to cattle farms, dig in the dirt, and culture it, and you will eventually isolate anthrax. That strain, however, won't really go into spore form well and won't be super pathogenic. You'll need to infect a bunch of sheep with it and try to get a better strain, like they did in my hometown at Ft. Detrick. Then you use specific drying methods to make it turn into weapons grade spores. That's why specific strains are important with anthrax and you could theoretically use something like CRISPR to make your own that's better than what you can find digging in the dirt.

To shreds you say?

Into the Sun