Mail-order polio virus made to internet recipe sparks terrorism fears

SCIENTISTS have made a polio virus from mail-order materials using a recipe available on the internet to show how easy it is for terrorists to make deadly biological weapons.

Researchers at the University of New York assembled the virus and then injected it into mice. The animals were paralysed and then killed.

“The reason we did it was to prove that it can be done and it now is a reality,” said Dr Eckard Wimmer, leader of the research team and co-author of the study in the journal Science.