Taiwan intelligence: Beijing converting SARS to bioweapon
China has weaponized the virus that causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS, according to a Taiwan official.
National Security Bureau (NSB) Director Tsai Chao-ming said that the SARS virus is now part of China's biochemical warfare program.
"We have information indicating that the SARS virus has become a biochemical warfare formula, and United Nations experts have the same intelligence as that obtained by the NSB," he told the legislature's Foreign and National Defense Committee on Oct. 6.
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"We suspect that some places in China are involved and we will continue to monitor the situation and developments," he said, according to the Taipei Times.
The comments came in response to a question from Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Twu Shiing-jer, who asked if the SARS virus had become a biochemical weapon.
The development and stockpiling of biological weapons by China would constitute a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention.
