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...
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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.
"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?