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SARS from Outer Space?
  • http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html
  • April 25, 2003
  • on
  • Chandra Wickramasinghe (Cardiff U.)
  • &
  • Milton Wainwright (Sheffield U.)
  • about what appeared on April 23 in the British tabloid newspaper The SUN
  • http://www.thesun.co.uk/
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"2001 Can J"
  • 2001 Can J. Inf. Dis. by Ken Tapping (Dominion Radio Ast. Obs.) and colleagues ---- historical records of flu pandemics and solar flare activity since early 1700s à a definite tendency for pandemics to occur during periods of solar maxima, and a statistical simulation suggested that the chance of the cycles being randomly coincidental was less than 2%
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"In the new SARS claim"
  • In the new SARS claim, Wickramasinghe and Wainwright said the novel nature of the virus and the fact it was first detected in China point to the possibility of ET origins. The virus causing the disease might have arrived protected inside a comet, hung out in Earth's upper atmosphere for a while, then been dragged down by the high peaks of the Himalayas, according to the article.