[TigerClaws]

I’ve had several FR members cite both the total deaths China is reporting and the number of infections “going down” as reason to not be worried.

I don’t believe them. Nor do I believe Iran.

This was a bioweapon that escaped the lab. Iran was there to get samples of it or had technicians going back and forth.

Likely it originated in the Canadian lab where Chinese research workers were expelled from last year. A Cat-4 biolab.

Chinese didn’t want the sequence out because it confirms origins and they could have made a buck from it selling a vaccine to the rest of the world. Some scientists displayed courage sharing this information with the world and likely punished for doing so.

[RummyChick]

The South Korea infections are linked to some church or cult or something like that.

But Iran’s infections have no such connection. I do believe they caught the bioweapon virus through mishandling or something similar.

[upchuck]

Bump. IMHO, you've hit the nail squarely on the head.

Just like Dr. Cheever said in "Contagion,"

The last thing we need is for this thing to walk out of a lab on the bottom of somebody's shoe.