There was a thread sometime back when the whole swine flu thing started where someone was quoted as saying that there was something, some markers of some kind, that indicated that this was an engineered virus.
"Where the hell it got all these genes from we don't know"
The current virus mixes an existing triple combination of human, avian and swine influenza identified in 1998 with two new swine virus genes from Asia and Europe, both of human origin.
I remember reading about those markers too. Not enough media coverage on that of course—
I read an article months ago about the engineered virus finding. The guy who made the claim after studying the virus was no slouch. He discovered tamiflu and is an Australian virologist.
Immediately when his findings got out, the CDC, WHO and the EU went rabid against him and named his findings false (with no time to really study them). I saw him interviewed once and an aggressive interviewer was rude to him. He summed it up and said something like, these are my findings from studying the virus and others will review it and may come to different conclusions. After that, silence.