[John H K]

This could be important. Could this be Bio warfare?

1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic wasn't biowarfare, Legionnaire's disease wasn't biowarfare, Black plague wasn't biowarfare.....

However, from now on it will be completely impossible to convince anyone that WANTS to believe a newly emergent contagious disease is biowarfare, that it isn't. So I'm not even going to try.

People absolutely hate the idea of anything significant or bad happening in the world without it having a specific human cause; they HATE randomness or the appearance of randomness more than anything.

China is a classic area for a naturally occuring contagious disease to emerge or jump species and people were worried about that happening naturally long before people were really concerned about biowarfare.

[Cachelot]

China is a classic area for a naturally occuring contagious disease to

This did not emerge in China. And the history of the outbreak (now four days) points strongly at a release. It's also too late to contain - it has hit the whole world already. That plane is just one of many. There's two interesting factors now - the mortality rate, and can a treatment be found.

[Senator Pardek]

...people were worried about that happening naturally long before people were really concerned about biowarfare.

So many folks are unaware of the fact that microscopic "bugs" always have and always will enjoy propagating as much as humans do, with or without terrorists.

[fella]

Did you ever see the old BBC series "Survivors" (early 80s)? It was about a chiness bio-weapon that gets accidently released by a traveling doctor before they come up with an antidote and it kills 9/10ths of the worlds population. It was fairly interesting except that they ran out of good plop-lines early on. But the first few shows were quite good at examineing the problems of out of control bio-warfare.

[null and void]

Black plague wasn't biowarfare.....

Wrong, check your facts.