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Here's a can of worms for you- terrorism via biological agents.
Bioterrorism has been called "The Poor Man's Nuke" in part because the level of technology required to cultivate & spread bio-agents is about that of a home liquor still or beer brewery.
The links below have other links- be sure to follow them--
Bioterrorism
as a Public Health Threat
... Special Issue.
Bioterrorism as a Public Health Threat. DA Henderson
The Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA ...
Center for the Study of
Bioterrorism and Emerging Infections ...
... Us Our mission, vision, values, and location, Key
References Planning templates
& bioterrorism articles in HTML and
PDF versions, Internet Resources Links to ...
Agricultural Biowarfare &
Bioterrorism
... Agricultural Biowarfare
& Bioterrorism. Mark Wheelis.
Section of Microbiology, University
of California ...
Bioterrorism:
Frontline Response, Evaluating US Preparedness
...
Bioterrorism: Frontline Response, Evaluating US Preparedness.
The
American Society for Microbiology ...
Texas Department of
Health, Bioterrorism Fact Sheets Page
Here are fact
sheets containing information on the agents most commonly
recognized as
having potential for use in biowarfare. ...
Medscape
Resource Center - Bioterrorism: Preparing for the ...
... Bioterrorism: Preparing for the Future (Updated
6/29/2001) Are we prepared for
a bioterrorist attack? Read the latest
findings from recent conferences and ...
Bioterrorism
Would Overwhelm US Medical Systems
... Health News
> Health Policy and You > Bioterrorism Would Overwhelm US
Medical
Systems. Bioterrorism Would Overwhelm US Medical Systems.
...
Threat of
Bioterrorism
... Threat of
Bioterrorism Recent events indicate that neither technical factors,
such
as arms control treaties, nor the moral repugnance long associated with
the ...
Bioterrorism
could infect food supply
Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper.
Bioterrorism could infect food supply
Symposium to discuss threat of
crop diseases ...
Some general info:
Here's a nasty I haven't seen mention in a while- links and comments are solicited....
Of course, bio-terrorists would never cross America's wide open southern border. They don't want to harm the image of illegal aliens.
Well, it's been posited that a nation that can't manage its own borders is not actually a nation- a concept that I think has some merit.
The great danger in modern times is not just that bio-weapons are rather easy to cultivate, but that the ease & speed of modern travel makes them so easy to disseminate. And one of the goals of classic terrorism is to inspire the targeted country to take oppressive measures against their own citizens ( "for the chillun" stuff ) thus fomenting internal rebellion. It is a potential mess!
Biological weapons have been arround for a long time and it really is just a question of time until we get hit with one. Then against who do we retaliate?
Stay well - Yorktown
I wonder if this has anything to do with Russias sodden willingness to reduce their nuclear arsenal.
Here is a related thread I posted last night regarding the subject. US lawmakers warned of "dark winter" in case of bioterrorist attack
Appreciate the link- I did put that in the morning DUBOB update.
Thanks for the ping backhoe. Here's a link to an overview of the subject with references sited.
The Looming Threat of Bioterrorism
Appreciate the link!
Thanks for the links, backhoe.
Thanks for looking!
For informational purposes:
To: American in Israel
"Also keep in mind that doxycycline or cyproflaxin antibiotics are pretty effective against most of the germs used in bio warfare."
Both can be found/ordered here.
--adding--
U.S. Rejects Anti-Germ Warfare Treaty
--thanks for the post and the good links. yep, scary, isn't it? Like, what do you do once it hits? Stay home, shelter in place as best as possible, maybe start an antibiotic prophylactic regime if you think/know you have been exposed. I don't see the public health or emergency response being able to really do very much if it's a massive outbreak. Like, how long before any local area has exhausted any supplies it has? And if the bio attack is a cocktail of different types of bioagents?
I'm reminded of last year I think it was, there was one of those anthrax threat scares in a piece of mail someplace down in florida. After the local authorities had this powder for two days to analyse, they still couldn't do it, had to ship it to the cdc just to find out if it was anything bad or not. I forget ther exact details now or I'd look for a link on that story. What I remember is it was in florida, and it was alledgedly anthrax, and was proven to be harmless eventually, but it took days, and I believe even the local fbi lab was involved in the analysis attempt, not sure on that one. Maybe someone remembers this story and can find a link to it.
If you'll poke around those links I thinks you'll see that "officials" have pretty much conceded that a large-scale or well co-ordinated attack ( or even natural epidemic ) would so deplete & paralyze our resources that we'd be helpless.
A standard military chem warfare gas mask will protect against breathing bacterial agents, and some of the generic veterinary-grade antibiotics work against germ agents, too. ( Do not try this approach without competent medical advise, please! ) Just FYI--
Preparing for the Terrorist Threat [Free Republic]
COLLODIAL SILVER :
Medical Benefits and How to Make It ...
US Totally Unprepared for Bioterrorism [Free Republic]
US Conducts Mock Biological, Chemical Attacks........OK SO ...
The coming Bio-Terror [Free Republic]
I'd have sworn I had a link for buying antibiotics via the web, but can't locate it!
17 Posted on 09/29/2001 08:24:38 PDT by backhoe---more---
18 Posted on 10/01/2001 01:53:20 PDT by backhoe
19 Posted on 10/01/2001 15:23:57 PDT by backhoe
20 Posted on 12/01/2001 18:29:31 PST by Zadokite
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