After rereading the article, apparently this wasn't the first lab to conduct this experiment or receive similar results. Just the first lab that is unguarded and not a military lab. The scientists quoted speak to just how easy it is to create this mutation. To think, all that would need to happen is for one little ferret being tested to escape, an accident, a break in, or any of the other xxx number of scenarios to occur, and the human population would be decimated.
