With H5N1 cases in animals rising might as well get ahead of the curve.
Resolves the same way as:
/IsaacKing/did-covid19-come-from-a-laboratory
but for H5N1.
It does not need to have happened before market open, as long as it's continuous with the current outbreak.
Looks like people are already making up H5N1 lab leak theories:
https://twitter.com/McCulloughFund/status/1783890342384685183
@PeterMillerc030 from the linked project:
https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/project/?accnNo=440252
it's not clear whether the serial passaging is done with low-pathogenic or highly-pathogenic virus, but this could be gain of function research.
GOF research has been done on H5N1: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-controversial-experiments-make-bird-flu-more-risky-poised-resume (The link I followed from the article was for the Netherlands, which has good safety procedures. However, if the West is doing it, that raises the possibility that less-resourced labs may also be investigating.)
@jskf if some scientists sample the currently circulating virus (assuming it's natural), make it more transmissible in humans and it gets out before the outbreak ends that's a YES, if the outbreak ends and the virus gets out in 5 years that's a NO