[fire_eye]

Actually, I think most people can imagine that it could be. They just aren't assuming, as you are, that it must be.

I don't understand why any speculation is necessary... Tracking epidemics is a known science and is the provenance of the NCDC. If they aren't already doing DNA analysis of the virus and trying to determine its origin, somebody up there needs to be fired. If it originated in a lab, that should be easily distinguishable from virus found in the wild (presumably in Egypt or whatever other third-world cesspool in which it originated, right?).

But I suppose everyone would rather blither on moronically... What's the problem, is everyone here a Humanities major, or something?

[ImphClinton]

I will tell you the problem.

Our government for very good reasons would never announce this was a terroist attack. If they were to do so it would cause mass panic far worse than yelling fire in a theater.

They would let it leak little by little. This could very well be step 2 in that process. I would imagine step 3 would be announcing it is a rare strain. It might take years before the public was let known the truth.

Take the bar of enriched uranium first it was 37 pounds then 6 ounces then there was. I see nothing. Followed by the comment recently that Sadam would want three to five nuclear weapons. What is the real truth?

I hardly fall for tin cap type stuff but I also don't wear blinders. The fact is JFK was shot at by more than one man. The congress waited thirty years to tell us that.