Previously Unknown Chinese Virus Announced: People Speculate Wildly About "Biological Weapons" ... Breaking news less than two hours ago in The New York Times: A strange respiratory disease originally named by health care officials "severe acute respiratory syndrome" (SARS) has just been identified as a previously unknown virus. Identified cases of the new disease have "doubled" in the past few days according to medical officials in Hong Kong. It is now known that the disease originated in Guandong Province in Southern China, where over 350 cases were documented last November. World Health Organization officials say this new disease "cannot be...