This thread is full of people using their imagination and speculating. All this leads to is idiotic conspiracy theories with no basis in science. How about you use critical thinking and science instead?if you think just a bit further you will understand that its very possible that this thing was a step on the way to a bio weapon. or it was created just to study it. then some human in the lab dropped the tube and bam its escaped from a level 4 bio lab.
not saying it happened like that, but thats just as plausible as this magical disease with about 100 different symptoms, or no symptoms at all, cropping up out of thin air.
was somebudy fucking bats? if they eat them, they cook them and that would kill any virus.
anyway i feel this was exhaustivly explored already in this thread so will cut it short, but use your imagination a bit and you will see that; it not looking like a weapon doesn't mean all that much.
actually all viruses want, is to replicate and spread, if they kill the host, they don't get a chance to spread. the way you can carry it without symptoms is pretty sneaky too and not typical natural virus behaivior.
normal viruses needs you to cough and sneeze so it can be spread.
There is absolutely zero evidence that this is a biological weapon.