A fictional account told in first “particle” (as I have not yet achieved personhood status)
This is my story of how I am often mistaken as a virus . . .
It seems an appropriate time to speak out.
I am not a naturally occurring nanoparticle (i.e., produced by cosmic dust, volcanic activity, forest fires, iron mining, wind erosion, or solar energy).
I am synthesized for nano-bio interface projects that are often kept secret from civilians. I am called an engineered nanoparticle, or ENP.
I am not produced by gain-of-function virus research projects. However, it may be helpful to review that work and its implications in some instances.
I may cause certain conditions that can be mis-attributed to viruses, but are instead novel forms of cytotoxicity produced by oxidative stress from ENPs, which I call nano-bio cytotoxicosis.
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