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the origin of sars

Anonymous — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:09:36 -0400

Despite a lot of hypothesis about the origin of sars indeed that their is a speculation that sars of the unimprtant coronavirus group in medicine could be originated in medical virology laboratories in countries which they have immense facility in creating gene maipulations or as a viral mutant or further more due to change in the ecology of viruses specially in heavily populated countries

Reference

chris — Tue, 27 May 2003 03:55:35 -0400

Sorry about that. Pubmed hadn't cited it yet when I posted. It's the Lancet, Volume 361, Number 9371 24 May 2003. Can't find in PubMed.And, fwiw, a pubmed search (via hubmed)on the man himself (bio note: he was a student and collaborator of Fred Hoyle's -- hence panspermia). Notice a theme to his papers?

In context...

Neil — Mon, 26 May 2003 23:28:58 -0400

Is there a link to the Lancet story? This has captured the imagination of the press of course; see Yahoo News for a brief story. A lot of media outlets are making the error of saying "Scientists say...", as if we speak with one voice. It should be pointed out that the main proponent is Chandra Wickramasinghe, who is a big fan of "life from space", panspermia etc. in general and a fairly controversial character.

SARS from outer space?

chris — Sat, 24 May 2003 00:31:00 -0400

A letter in the Lancet outlines a scenario in which the SARS virus could have come from the outer regions of our atmosphere. Interesting, and reasonably plausible arguments.