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Fun tidbit SARS-CoV was mostly a hospital system problem..
8.4.4.1 A Non-Unique Information Risk Inheres in Experiments Describing the Creation of Highly Transmissible, Highly Deadly Strains of Pathogens
When compared to strains of pathogens created via the use of GoF research information, we find that naturally occurring strains generally are not both highly pathogenic and highly transmissible (with the exception of wild type SARS-CoV).
Although SARS-CoV has an R value greater than one, the fact that the virus is transmissible only after symptoms present, the disease is largely spread within the medical system, and the long incubation period of the disease makes outbreaks of SARS-CoV relatively easy to control (as described in Chapter 4, past outbreaks have witnessed a two-fold drop in the R value of a SARS outbreak after control measures are implemented).