[muawiyah]

Big answer for everybody on these flu threads ~ it takes a week and a day to determine what kind of flu virus, if any, just attacked you.

[Windflier]

Bio-weapons, anyone?

I don’t know, but they’re saying that this virus is killing people between 20 and 40. That age group doesn’t normally succumb so easily to flu.

Could a flu virus be bio-engineered in such a way that it would be lethal to even the most hardy members of a population?

And could someone intentionally plant that virus among a population that is streaming unchecked into this country?

(tin foil hat/)

[Myrddin]

The wonders of air travel. We can inoculate the whole world with a few airplanes in a few days. The nasty little hitchhiker is invisible, so security won't notice. This genie is definitely out of the bottle. There's a little time left to prepare before it comes to visit your town.

The problem with a communicable bioweapon or just a natural communicable disease is that you can't control the wind or the myriad numbers of possible persons who can be infected and pass it along.

The top of the hour news was saying Mexico only has enough of the effective antiviral agents to treat 1 million patients. Baxter (yes the same Baxter that just sent live viruses as "vaccine" that killed the patients) is working hard to make more of the antivirals. There's an interesting approach for an economic "stimulus".