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Is SARS From Mars?

Posted by timothy on from the make-of-it-what-you-will dept.

lupulack writes "A news item at CTV.ca asks whether coronaviruses such as that implicated in SARS are in fact completely terrestrial in origin. It's not as clear cut as you might think !"

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  1. Link to a more believable article by Andy_R · · Score: 5, Informative

    The World Health Organisation are now saying it's likely to have originated in civet cats

    I expect the author of the theory that 'The Lancet' printed in their letter page will now follow up with an equally believable theory that the cats flew here from Mars.

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