Probably not, but initial reports have described the virus as a "novel" combination of avian-pig-human genetic material, not seen before. When a national publication uses that type of wording, it sort of raises some red flags and some questions. Has a lunatic scientist gone off-the-rails and developed a super-flu? (Don't forget, it was only few years ago that someone with a background in science unleashed the anthrax attacks.)
Unfortunately, the "greens" who want to shut down civilization by eliminating CO2-based energy, have a public record of stating their desires in an extreme manner that may influence some less than stable scientists. For example, is it wise to allow a government official, who is a prominent global warming scientist, go around referring to coal trains as "death trains" when he obviously is using words to incite people? Did he incite the wrong scientist with inflammatory language?
Or, could comments like these, from prominent environmentalists who are leading the anti-CO2 effort, be inciting a lunatic scientist(s) to unleash a viral threat to humanity?
"We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is
cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its
orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal
consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide
to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come
along.”
"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."
"I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
"We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!"
"We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels."
“Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?”