Accidental leakage!!!! Why else would China try to keep it mum???

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And this crap started where? China?

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And it started on the same day we invaded Iraq.

My husband owes me big time. He's been making fun of me for calling this a bio attack by China.

My intent was that China was going to use it to invade Hong Kong and Taiwan under the pretense of "quarantined" and try to engage us in a war with them and North Korea.

And it started on the same day we invaded Iraq.

Uhhhh....Not exactly.

I remember hearing of it in February. I believe I've seen articles mentioning somewhere around November for a start.

They make wonderful fur-lined tinfoil hats in Russia

Hehe... I just love those crazy Russians, always the jokers. In related news, check out Pravda for even more enlightened stories! You'll be thrilled to read how there's going to be a nuclear holocaust due to our bombs unearthing low-grade radioactive materials around Baghdad, and flooding in Russia due to techtonic shifts and earthquakes caused by the concussion of our bunker busters!

Really, though, their capacity for the dramatic and the suspicion of all evils never ceases to amaze me. As if they think there's some vast conspiracy... hey... wait...

They make wonderful fur-lined tinfoil hats in Russia

Beat me to it!

My intent was that China was going to use it to invade Hong Kong

Invade Hong Kong?

That would be like China invading Shanghai or Tianjin, or the United States invading Pittsburgh.

I think the Russian scientist needs to understand that evolution is a powerful thing and obviously this virus is a natural mutuation, the likes of which must have happened millions of times in order for my Grandmother to have evolved from a mollusk.

More on this story here: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1346560,00.html

Sars biological weapon?

Moscow - The deadly pneumonia that has killed more than 100 people around the world may be a man-made biological weapon, Russian experts said on Friday.

Nikolai Filatov, head of Moscow's epidemiological services, told the Gazeta daily that he thought the pneumonia was man-made because "there is no vaccine for this virus, its make-up is unclear, it has not been very widespread and the population is not immune to it."

Yet he had some reservations, since the virus has a low mortality rate - so far killing 4% of those infected -, and because it is relatively difficult to pass on - through direct contact or inhalation.

The virus, according to academy of medecine member Sergei Kolesnikov, is a cocktail of mumps and measles, whose mix could never appear in nature.

"We can only get that in a laboratory," he told a conference in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.

It may have spread because of an "accidental leak" from a lab, he added.

More than 100 people have died and some 3 000 others have been infected by Severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), which is believed to have originated in China's southern Guangdong province.

Same story appears on ABC Online here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s830628.htm

Ah the movie "The Patriot" the ONE with Stephen Segal comes to mind over this one.........we shall see!

Accidental...what about the so called "super-spreaders" as airline stews or as one passenger who was found to be shuttling back and forth between SE Asia and the USA

My intent was that China was going to use it to invade Hong Kong and Taiwan under the pretense of "quarantined" and try to engage us in a war with them and North Korea.

Why am I'm not surprised that you haven't noticed that Great Britain GAVE Hong Kong to China several years ago?

I'm also not surprised that you'd claim something from the Russian media quoting a scientist who, as best I can tell, has never actually seen or worked with the SARS virus personally, as "proof" of your belief it's a bioweapon.

It's a fascinating excercise in psychology but it makes people feel better that bad things that happen naturally were somehow deliberately caused by humans...from viruses to earthquakes. Makes the earth seem less random and less frightening, oddly enough.

The Chinese CLAIM it started in November or so, but why did they wait to release the info until the DAY WE ATTACKED IRAQ. And they still aren't being helpful with information considering that Hong Kong is about to have its medical establishment fall because of so many sick doctors and staff. The timing is too suspicious

"Hehe... I just love those crazy Russians, always the jokers. In related news, check out Pravda for even more enlightened stories! You'll be thrilled to read how there's going to be a nuclear holocaust due to our bombs unearthing low-grade radioactive materials around Baghdad, and flooding in Russia due to techtonic shifts and earthquakes caused by the concussion of our bunker busters! "

"Really, though, their capacity for the dramatic and the suspicion of all evils never ceases to amaze me. As if they think there's some vast conspiracy.."

Pravda is the Russian equivilent of the National Inquirer. Would it be safe to say that you read the National Enquirer to find out what Americans think of the world?

"I think the Russian scientist needs to understand that evolution is a powerful thing and obviously this virus is a natural mutuation, the likes of which must have happened millions of times in order for my Grandmother to have evolved from a mollusk."

"Obviously"? It certainly isn't obvious to me. Perhaps you have information you are not sharing with the rest of us.

I am not inclined to believe it is man made, but the possibility exists. As far as I know it is pretty clear that no one knows where SARS came from, or if someone does, they are keeping silent. I think I will reserve judgement for now.

The BBC made a TV series called "Survivers" that had this whole thing as it's primus. PBS in Dallas ran it back in the late 80s or early 90s.