Quote Originally Posted by Don Corleone View Post
Fair point, I lack sufficient evidence to say Iran specifically, but it does appear to me to be a designed biological agent:

1) It's a mutated form of an E.Coli bacteria that's not found in Central Europe normally.
2) It specifically mutated in ways that made it resistant to most known anti-bacterial agents, even though anti-bacterial agents are nowhere near as prevalent in Africa as they are in Central Africa, from which this strain originated (seems odd that a bug would genetically select resistance to a threat it hadn't seen before)
3) By all accounts, it appears to be a particularly virulent strain, and spreading fast.

As for why nobody's taken credit, wouldn't they want to wait until it's actually gotten a little bit widespread... give the bug a headstart on the CDC (or whatever that would be in Europe).

I mentioned Iran specifically, because they possess the biotech industry necessary for making designer bacteria and if I remember correctly, they made a threat along these lines back in 2004/2005 (I need to go do my homework and find the citation for that).
if this were a custom biological agent why go for something with such a limited transmission means?
there are lots of other choices that would do a lot more damage and are air or person to person transmissible..