[Judith Anne]

It's entirely possible that you (and others, like Betty Jo) are absolutely correct about this being a biowarfare ploy that has gone out of control...lending support to that theory is the story, now largely forgotten, of all the international, world-class microbiologists who died, were murdered, committed suicide, or disappeared over the winter of 2001-2002. I have seen no authoritative person anywhere who is willing to rule out bioterror.

Or it could simply be another flavor in nature's stew.

Either way, lately I have been generally focussing on the implications for the average American, and particularly on the implications for those who will be dealing with the illness, health-care workers.

There is so little useful information...if it were bioterror, it would be nice if the "inventor" also invented a cure, treatment, or vaccine...

[Domestic Church]

It doesn't have to be invented to be used as bioterror...just discovered.