http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6729061%255E911,00.html
Alien link to SARS debunked By JUDY SKATSSOON The Advertiser (Australia) July 10, 2003 SUGGESTIONS that SARS came from outer space were unbelievably implausible, one of the world's leading authorities on the virus said yesterday. A letter published in The Lancet medical journal earlier this year captured the public imagination by suggesting it may have hitchhiked a ride to Earth on a comet or meteor. Genome Institute of Singapore executive director Dr Edison Liu, a speaker at the International Genetics Conference in Melbourne, however, yesterday debunked the theory as "scientific imagination bordering on fantasy". Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome clearly was a terrestrial, or Earth-based virus, he said, although genetic analysis showed it did not resemble any human strains. Dr Liu said containment, quarantine and the Internet helped conquer SARS, which otherwise would have turned into a disaster of almost unprecedented scale. He said, however, much about SARS remained a mystery, including its origins. The current belief was that SARS had species-jumped from an animal to humans. Dr Liu said the virus was capable of infecting multiple species. ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
