Ok, so it's only an opinion. Anyone think there could be any truth to this? Whose laboratories would've concoted this? China? (Is the answer only too obvious?)

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If you made a weapon like this; wouldn't you also make a vaccine so you don't take your side out?

Whose laboratories would've concoted this?

A university in Quebec. I posted the finding before, but forget what it was. Will look.

Somehow, a French Canadian state makes sense doesn't it?

Yeah, China probably did it.

I doubt it, it is neither contageous or deadly enough to be an efficient bio-weapon. When it comes down to it SARS isn't much more deadly than normal viral pneumonia, and it came from a region where most new cold/flu viruses originate.

BUMP

Also, measles and mumps are parymixoviruses, They have already identified SARS as a coronavirus with 95% certainty, Therefore I think the guy is full of shit. Who would bioengineer a really bad cold (which is what SARS is) when they they could weaponize smallpox, an outbreak of which would be much much worse.

The thought that SARS is man-made has crossed my mind more than once.

First, consider the source. Russian sources are generally
less credible than Debka.

> This can be done only in a laboratory, ...

All of rural China is a lab for creating novel animal-human
and-back-again virii and bacteria. A couple of times a century
we can expect to get a virulent one, a'la 1918 (which was
much more fatal than the present agent).

> ... weapons a protective anti-viral vaccine is, as a
> rule, worked out at the same time.

And we'll know that happened if no Party members in China
go missing before SARS burns itself out or is countered by
medications from outside China. (The Chinese internal
population control scenario.)

> ...a medicine for atypical pneumonia may soon appear.

CDC says it might take a year.

> ...the virus could have begun accidentally, as a result
> of "an unsanctioned leakage" from a laboratory.

Maybe, but lets also consider that SARS is relatively
ineffective as a weapon:
* up to 10 day incubation
* 4% fatality rate (without competent medical care)
* reportedly more severe among Asians.

Haven't paramyxoviruses been found in some of the victims?

China is known to be the source of flu-like diseases -- Asian flu, Hong Kong flu... Not the result of germ warfare labs but the result of the Chinese system of agriculture. Humans, pigs, ducks, and chickens live close together and exchange viruses. These viruses exchange genetic material, yielding new strains.

http://www.medinfo.ufl.edu/year2/mmid/bms5300/bugs/influ.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/06/1049567564240.html

If you made a weapon like this; wouldn't you also make a vaccine so you don't take your side out?

If it was man made, they might not have had time to develope a vaccine. They might have had a vaccine, but found that it didn't work. SARS might be the result of an experimental vaccine for something entirely different.

Maybe, but lets also consider that SARS is relatively ineffective as a weapon: * up to 10 day incubation * 4% fatality rate (without competent medical care) * reportedly more severe among Asians.

As a strategic millitary weapon, agreed. But as a secondary type weapon that saps ecconomic resources and panics a population, it seems to be very effective.

Highly DOUBTFUL nigh unto IMPOSSIBLE ...

I agree. This virus comes from sleeping with ducks.

Whose laboratories would've concoted this?

A university in Quebec.

WHAT the hell is this - disinformation or sheer ignorance of the facts?

Found the reference: "Facteurs de virulence des coronavirus hemagglutinants et valeur vaccinale et diagnostique des protéines recombinantes"

translation:
"Factors of virulence of the coronavirus hemagglutinants and vaccine value and diagnoses recombining proteins", was published just a couple of years ago out of the University of Quebec, microbiology and biotechnology.

==> A cure for the common cold? Or research to weaponize it?

Original Free Republic post

"Who would bioengineer a really bad cold (which is what SARS is) when they they could weaponize smallpox" What are the possibilities...

• It's naturally occuring (Most probable)
• It's bioengineered as a weapon and intentionally released but is a failure. (Doesn't make sense)
• It's bioengineered as a weapon and intentionally released acting as designed. (Doesn't make sense)
• It's bioengineered as a weapon (A Failure but is accidently released, China would be likely culprit)
• It's bioengineered as a cure, a study, or gene therapy and is accidently released (China again for accidental releases)
• It's bioengineered by a laboratory looking to get rich off the sale of the vaccine. (Perfect for that, could be anybody including US firms)