Medical Experts Speak Out -- SARS Virus Could Be Man-Made and Possibly a Bio-Weapon

News Pundit.net ^ | 4/11/2003 | Douglas Oliver

[ex-Texan]

Medical Experts Speak Out -- SARS Virus Could Be Man-Made and Possibly a Bio-Weapon

This was the breaking news late yesterday. News 24 was reporting that top Russian medical experts were lining up to express concern about the virus. A brief excerpt:

Nikolai Filatov, head of Moscow's epidemiological services, told the Gazeta daily that he thought the pneumonia was man-made because "there is no vaccine for this virus, its make-up is unclear, it has not been very widespread and the population is not immune to it." * * *

The virus, according to academy of medecine member Sergei Kolesnikov, is a cocktail of mumps and measles, whose mix could never appear in nature. * * *

"We can only get that in a laboratory," he told a conference in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency.

It may have spread because of an "accidental leak" from a lab, he added. * * *

Another top level Russian scientist expressed similar views today. Dr. Sergei Kolesnikov, Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences was quoted in En Rian.ru that he believed the virus if atypical pneumonia has been created artificially in a laboratory "possibly as a bacteriological weapon."

He stated his opinion in that regard in news conference in Irkutsk (Siberia) on Thursday.

* * * the virus of atypical pneumonia is a synthesis of two viruses (of measles and infectious parotiditis or mumps), the natural compound of which is impossible. This can be done only in a laboratory, the academician is convinced. He also said that in creating bacteriological weapons a protective anti-viral vaccine is, as a rule, worked out at the same time. Therefore, the scientist believes, a medicine for atypical pneumonia may soon appear. He does not exclude that the spread of the virus could have begun accidentally, as a result of "an unsanctioned leakage" from a laboratory. * * *

Dr. Kolesnikov is a famous scientist with international standing. He served as a former co-President of the IPPNW and as member of the Russian Duma. He has published many international scientific papers. A brief biography may be found here.

ABC News.au had a nearly identical report up on its web site today. They are reporting that the SARS "Mystery Virus" may well be a Chinese bio-weapon that accidently escaped the laboratory.

NewsPundit is following the lead of the Russians:

I have been biting my tongue for the last week and trying to quiet the bio-weapon rumors that have been floating around. But now I believe the "cat has been let out of the bag." All of the evidence is pointing to a man-made virus. Russian medical science may be years ahead of the U.S., U.K. in its experience with such things. So I reluctantly follow their lead.

The Chinese have a lot of explaining to do. The virus is now "out there" . . . just like the "Truth is Out There ...." One thing they can explain: Was this a test of the World Heath Organization, or how quickly the U.S. is capable of reacting to a bio-weapon ?

[riri]

Me too.

Latest SARS Victims Fitter and Younger

Treatments that seemed promising for fitter and younger people are now showing to be little help. Does this mean it is becoming stronger rather than weaker as it moves through society.

[theFIRMbss]

> Treatments that seemed promising for fitter and younger people are now showing to be little help.

I've been getting more
worried because more people
I talk to have friends

and relatives they
describe as "deathly ill" with
some kind of "weird flu."

The WHO page is bad.
But it's worse hearing people
talking on the street...

[riri]

Really?!

That's odd. We actually has a horrible flu this year in our house. Probably 6,7 weeks ago. I rarely get a cough type illness and I was hacking up a lung. My chest hurt from coughing for frequently and so hard.

Another odd symptom was an excruciating pain in my lower back. It barely effected my husband who had a flu shot this year so, I assummed it was this years flu flavor.

But, I would think flu season would be winding down.

I would be interested in seeing how in tact the victims immune systems are. I wonder if they have lower T cell counts or something?! I would also be interested in knowing just how the supposed recovered are doing.