i’m holding out for more evidence than idle speculation, but i’m sure conspiracy theorists everywhere are getting frothy over indications that SARS might be engineered in the lab:

“The virus, according to Academy of Medicine member Sergei Kolesnikov, is a cocktail of mumps and measles, whose mix could never appear in nature.

“We can only get that in a laboratory,” he told a conference in the Siberian city of Irkutsk, quoted by RIA Novosti news agency. ”

[ via ben hammersley ]