[detsaoT]

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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[Hodar]

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

[LurkedLongEnough]

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?

[SirAllen]

Yeah, China probably did it.

[Conservomax]

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.

[browardchad]

BUMP

[Conservomax]

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.

[upchuck]

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

[Boundless]

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.

[omega4412]

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

[_Jim]

Highly DOUBTFUL nigh unto IMPOSSIBLE ...

[Quix]

IMHO,

THIS has been a very reasonable suspicion from the beginning.

China certainly has the . . . uhhh . . . . values to do it

and the priorities to do it.

[Conservomax]

All that I am saying is that, in this case the most obvious answer is probably the correct one, that SARS is a naturally occuring mutated virus.

[gnarledmaw]

On Tuesday(?) there was a thread claiming that the fellow who first showed up in the Hong Kong hospital had a connection to a Chinese bio lab. Supposedly when he checked in he had commented that he knew he had "an especially virulent" or "dangerous" illness, something along those lines.

Ive lost the thread, could someone with better searching ability and time confirm this?

[tracer]

Russia no doubt still is a player in this dirty business...

[verity]

Sergei: Put down the vodka and slowly back away.