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Government-Created Vampire Plague

Description

A government experiment to create weaponized immortality using a virus instead creates vampires, and the resulting plague destroys civilization, testing whether military bioweapon research inevitably produces catastrophic escape events.

Real-World Relevance

Models gain-of-function research catastrophe: what if a bioweapon program created something worse than death? Directly relevant to biosafety lab escape debates and the risk of engineering pathogens.

Classification

Domains: Biotechnology and Genetic EngineeringWarfare and Weapons TechnologyExistential Risk and Civilizational Collapse

Scenario Types: Warning / Self-preventing prophecyCautionary tale

Outcomes: Catastrophic

Tags: government-bioweaponvampire-plaguelab-escape

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