[Buckeye McFrog]

I do, however, suspect that this is a Chinese bioweapon, and I have to admit that thought is scary.

A lot of the panic has to do with the fact that the Chinese have been so secretive about it and will likely never come clean. If it is a bioweapon the designer likely got canned for it having such a low mortality rate.

[chris37]

It’s doesn’t need to have a high mortality rate though.

It only needs to cause fear and panic.

A high mortality rate, in some ways, is not beneficial, because it can burn itself out quickly.

What it really needs to do is turn its victims in to virus manufacturing plants while leaving them alive long enough to spread it.