This is from October 2022. Are you awake yet?
Government lab in Maryland plans to create a hybrid monkeypox strain that is MORE deadly than one currently spreading in US
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11349241/Lab-Maryland-plans-create-hybrid-monkeypox-strain-contagious-lethal.html
Lab in Maryland plans to create hybrid monkeypox strain more contagious and lethal | Daily Mail Online
The team in Bethesda want to equip the dominant clade - which mostly causes a rash and flu-like symptoms - with genes from another strain that causes severe disease.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11349241/Lab-Maryland-plans-create-hybrid-monkeypox-strain-contagious-lethal.html