[JustPiper]

I keep asking myself, if this is biochem, which I believe, then why China? The population? Any ideas?

[Dog Gone]

I don't share your belief, so I can't really help.

[First Amendment]

I daily read everything about SARS on FR - and so much info is speculative, and people who are non-scientists can only read what the scientists say about the virus and either trust or not. But to guess intelligently, it looks as though it either mutated naturally due to filth, close animal proximity and filth, and killing and eating all kinds of animals (articles about this here on FR) OR it was an escaped bio experiement. THe first cases were near a town that has a large University specializing in veterinary science which could easily have bio-weapons/genetic stuff going on in secrecy. If it is a bio-weapon thing it probably escaped by accident, IMHO.