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Developed in consultation with technical and policy experts, the fictional exercise scenario portrayed a deadly, global pandemic involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that first emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months. Ultimately, the exercise scenario revealed that the initial outbreak was caused by a terrorist attack using a pathogen engineered in a laboratory with inadequate biosafety and biosecurity provisions and weak oversight. By the end of the exercise, the fictional pandemic resulted in more than three billion cases and 270 million fatalities worldwide.

https://www.nti.org/analysis/article...gical-threats/
It does make you wonder if would-be bioterrorists were encouraged by the way COVID pandemic caused major disruption around the world in a very short time. Imagine if someone created a much more lethal pathogen than COVID (as bad as that was).....