<the sequences in the pigs on the Korean farms are related to Bioterrorism, but they almost certainly came from a lab and they look increasingly real and increasingly dangerous>
Henry, when the enemy has aircraft carriers, nuclear weapons, satellites, Specter aircraft and all sorts of weaponry, a good strategy would be to come up with a new war style.
An H5N1/human influenza seems like a good thing to turn loose. It's true that it would not be discriminatory and come back to base to kill the wrong side, but if one could come up with a vaccine, then it might be an odds-on bet.
Perhaps some country has figured out just such an approach. If somebody in a laboratory has produced the sequences you mention, the implications are hideous. I thought computer viruses were bad enough. Natural viruses are bad enough too and have killed umpty million people. If people start inventing killer bugs, and turn them loose, we are in big trouble.
Why do you think the sequences were made in a laboratory?
It's not much consolation, but at least sars hasn't done a re-run so far. Maybe it has fizzled out and is reduced to lurking in the seething cauldron of the wild, trying to figure out a comeback.
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