[bonesmccoy]

Bioweapons should not have a 5% mortality rate.

Bioweapons should not have the capability to spread and is should be uniformly fatal to the recipient of the weapon.

Alternatively, another class of weapons could be non-lethal, induce long-periods of illness that require massive resources to address, and then can be prevented in your own nation by immunization.

Neither of these criteria are met by SARS.

SARS is a typical common cold virus that is emerging in China. It happens every generation.

[DB]

"SARS is a typical common cold virus"

Since when did the "typical common cold" have a mortality rate of 4% ever? That's one out of twenty-five people dead who gets it... And that's with modern medical care...

[theFIRMbss]

>Bioweapons should not have a 5% mortality rate.

Check out the WHO page
listing mortality stats.
All over the globe

the death rates are much
higher than just five percent.
The numbers get skewed

because the figures
for the US are grossly
different from the world's.

(My suspicions are
that this issue divides up
people who can see

reasonably, say,
six months into the future,
and people who can't.

If you have cases
that almost double each week,
then even a small

mortality rate
adds up to huge numbers in
a very few months.

This is one issue
where I'm praying nay-sayers
have picked the right side.)