Swine Flu: Your Questions Answered I'm reading this article on CNN.com and came across an interesting point.

11. Could this new swine flu virus have been manufactured by bioterrorists?

That's the theory on some conspiracy theorists' Web sites. But experts don't believe it.

"If you were a bioterrorist you'd want to create something that's a lot more deadly than this," said Dr. Gerald Evans, an associate professor of microbiology at Queen's University in Canada. "The problem with influenza is that the second you put it into people, it replicates and mutates very quickly. Even if you created the perfect bioweapon, within a few generations of transmissions, it wouldn't do what you planned for it to do."

Please don't think that I'm a conspiracy theorist, because I'm not. The problem with Dr. Evans' statement is that terrorists are not only out to kill large numbers of people. The basic concept of terrorism is the intent to intimidate or cause terror. It is more commonly understood as an act which is intended to create fear, terror and/or panic; is perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a materialistic goal or a lone attack); and deliberately targets (or disregards the safety of) non-combatants. With that in mind, this "could" be an act of terrorist, especially since there is a lot of panic over this.