It may seem extreme to quarantine more than 100 passengers on an airplane because five people report symptoms of the pneumonia-like virus that is spreading across Southeast Asia. But scenarios like the one that played out at San Jose International Airport on Tuesday are not unexpected as officials seek to prevent the mysterious illness from wreaking havoc in the United States.
Was it a coincidence that we had an outbreak of West Nile Virus last year when Saddam Hussein is known to possess the bug? Any mysterious disease could be the product of biological warfare. Whether this particular bug was manufactured is less important than the fact that rogue nations are trying to spread these very things. Taking these nations apart can at least give us the peace that diseases aren't being used at weapons.
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