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Why isn't there some regulation in place that says that any man-made virus should contain some specific sequence of junk dna so that we can at least trace it as such?

>>ameliu+(OP)
It's not that easy to do in many cases. The human manipulation is often infecting cells in a lab rather than entering a sequence in a computer and synthesising it.

However making it a regulation to keep samples and publish sequences would probably make sense.

>>tim333+j1
Ok. Perhaps we should stop making viruses until we are more technologically capable then.

>>ameliu+j2
Well, yeah. People have argued in favour including Fauci famously but I think the dangers likely outweigh the benefits.