[silverleaf]

engineered

unless there is a plausible reason for it to appear in 4 different parts in Mexico among people with no known risk factors for exposure to combined livestock, and that it kills adults in prime age (such as military men)

or a lab screw up in testing a vaccine that was intended to protect against combined strains and had a live strain in it
?? live bird flu was “accidentally” sent out in a test vaccine by a lab in Austria this winter

The quickness of CDC to jump on this suggest incompetent alarmists at CDC or foreknowledge of a time bomb waiting to go off

[Lady GOP]

The quickness of CDC to jump on this suggest incompetent alarmists at CDC or foreknowledge of a time bomb waiting to go off.

I dont think its the first. Everyone has been watching the h5n1 for awhile and expecting something to happen at anytime. We will have to wait and see if this was enigneered or naturally occuring.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"unless there is a plausible reason for it to appear in 4 different parts in Mexico among people with no known risk factors for exposure to combined livestock, and that it kills adults in prime age (such as military men)"

I love a good conspiracy theory, but viruses routinely combine genes. One farm with both poultry and pigs (and Mexico is stuffed with them, as is China) is the only petri dish needed. Human-to-human transmission will take it from there.

Viruses such as SARS and many flus also routinely take down people in their prime. They are basically killed by their own immune system.

Stay healthy, folks, but let's not bark at shadows. This does not seem to be a bioengineered bug quite yet.

[Yaelle]

Man, if I were a lazy terrorist group, that’s what I’d do. Get to Mexico. Easy. Spread it around a few cities. Easy. Sit back on the beach with a cool drink and watch our open border policy spread it around the USA.