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I'm not saying you should run for the hills. Its only 2% deadly which is pretty low even compaired to influenza. Just speculating as to why governments around the world are treating this outbreak like the plague when its not. Through current genetic engineering its possible to make a viris that only is lethal to people with certain genes. That is to say if china wanted to attack russia for example they could build a disease that their people don't get sick from but only carry, and is very deadly to Russians. Right now the chineese government is watching to see wich countries they can infect.
Blown out of proportion health scares like this are to public health agencies what fund raisers are to public radio. Scare people to death and it loosens government purse strings.
There is a study done just recently that concluded Asian smokers are about twice as likely as Caucasians and other groups to have a gene expression in their lungs that this virus and the SARs virus target. If there is any kind of virus engineering going I tend to think that it would be for trying to find defenses for things like that.
I started this topic here because of ducks, then thought as it expanded in scope it really doesn't belong in a duck thread. so I started this one here > China's going nuts
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