[Prince Charles]

"These lead us to believe that maybe the virus itself has changed," said Yuen.

Is SARS a retrovirus?

[Domestic Church]

Some are concerned it may be part of a chimeravirus program that China supposedly has set up. It's possible what they are seeing in the Amoy cases is just natural selection of the higher virulence that was evident in the superspreaders and first wave of infection from the zero case.

I suspect this was released for population control reasons but it wasn't known at the time that the respiratory aspect would be so pronounced in the human population as the rat corona virus that parallels part of this bug is highly virulent but has a negligible death rate while having the strongest effect in reducing reproduction in affected rat populations.

[TBall]

Did you think SARS was a flu strain?