II had to re-read the article because I thought [somehow] the infection was triggered by looking at a computer screen. Something like color hues or saturation would cause it. But - it turns out - that the microbe would have a nano-computer in it.

It was pretty weird that anyone would even take the time to consider such a weapon. The only shortcoming would be un attended consequences to someone that was on the "wielders side" fell because of a mutation or a dominant expression of a recessive gene.

We have a saying in the US : go back five generations and we're all second cousins:)

>As you can imagin, this is a possibility that was explored in SF. There was a novel by Frank Herbert (better known as the author of "Dune"), about one guy who designed a disease that killed only women. Not sure about the title, "The White Death" it might be.
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>>I thought the McDonalds menu at McDee's website was computer bio-warfare state of the art, but this trumps it!
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>>http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1990