If some worst-case scenarios are to be believed, then terrorist groups could use the recent outbreak of Ebola in Africa to their advantage. By using the Ebola virus as a biological weapon, the story goes, these groups could wreak havoc around the globe.
But the idea that Ebola could be used as a biological weapon should be viewed with heavy skepticism, according to bioterrorism experts. Although deadly, Ebola is notoriously unstable when removed from a human or animal host, making weaponization of the virus unlikely, two experts told Live Science.
That's not the view posited by Peter Walsh, a biological anthropologist at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. The world should be taking the threat of an Ebola bomb very seriously, Walsh said in a recent interview with the British tabloid The Sun. [7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare]
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Evil wouldn't have to weaponize a 90% fatal virus in order to wreak havoc on the country. At the rate we are going, even if 1% of pop didn't show up to work; services halted due to sickness, our economy would collapse. Panic and riots would ensue, a certain parasitic class would take advantage of situation and rob and loot/murder spree... maybe not countrywide, but urban areas would be hit hardest and death tolls would rise. Someone needs to get up and bury the dead or there's MORE disease/death.
ReplyDeleteheck, we're almost there. all the diseases brought in by the illegals, has taxed the already handicapped medical system.
Yellow fever epidemic that hit the south in the late 1800's; cholera epidemics, Spanish Influenza of 1917.
Our society is more polarized and divided than ever, nothing like disease or threat of disease to further turn one against another.
-sj
Our society is more polarized and divided than ever, nothing like disease or threat of disease to further turn one against another.
DeleteGood point.