Ebola Virus spreading to Sierra Leon.
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otolith said:
See, if I were an Al Quaeda sort, I'd be sending some martyrs to that outbreak to bring me some live virus home, and then I'd be sending out some very ill suicide bombers. I find it hard to believe that hasn't occurred to them.
There's even instructions available on how to do ithttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...
northwest monkey said:
There's even instructions available on how to do it
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...
I get the impression that the biowarfare plot in that is somewhat more sophisticated than sending someone to an outbreak to infect himself and the performing an incubation period relay race to smuggle it home? You couldn't cause a serious outbreak in the West, it's too hard to catch and our medical facilities are too good, but you could infect a lot of people at the scene and spread a lot of terror.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...
otolith said:
northwest monkey said:
There's even instructions available on how to do it
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...
I get the impression that the biowarfare plot in that is somewhat more sophisticated than sending someone to an outbreak to infect himself and the performing an incubation period relay race to smuggle it home? You couldn't cause a serious outbreak in the West, it's too hard to catch and our medical facilities are too good, but you could infect a lot of people at the scene and spread a lot of terror.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executive-Orders-Jack-Ryan...
northwest monkey said:
It's actually quite an enjoyable book. It's Tom Clancy, so gets a bit "USA, USA" in places, but the actual premise of the book is very interesting and, to my untrained eyes, quite believable.
Funnily enough I am just reading it again at the momentInteresting to know if there really is a Mayinga strain that is suspected of being airborne
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