Viral Veronica

There is a debate today in the paper about whether the recipe for a bird flu virus should be published. This flu has a 60% mortality rate and spreads in the air as easily as the common cold. While, based on recent shock stories of a growing world population and the problem that will cause, it would seem killing off 4.2 billion people seems like a good idea, the thing that concerns me most is in the second line of the story.

‘The question gripping scientists after virologists said they had developed a bird flu virus’

The key word here is developed. The buggers made this killer bug...what were they thinking!?