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Date Posted: 23:11:03 08/08/08 Fri
Author: Fred
Author Host/IP: 98.173.140.150
Subject: Weaponized diseases....
In reply to: Prairie Dawg 's message, "Re: Case Closed?" on 10:07:13 08/08/08 Fri

I suppose same question can be asked about various strains
of smallpox virus. Smallpox was for all intents and purposes
considered eradicated worldwide, but the U.S. still maintains
inventories of the virus. One reason used at least until recently was that the Russians also continued to maintain
similar inventories of the virus. Now it seems the raison
d'erte for maintaining inventories of the virus is the
supposed threat of al Qaeda to release a weaponized version of smallpox against the U.S. despite
the fact that no evidence has been turned up to indicate that
al Qaeda or any similar group has an active biological warfare programme underway. Then there were some
rumours floating around about middle east terrorist groups
developing a weaponized version of tuberculosis that
could be spread by placing TB carriers on commercial airline
flights to release the pathogen into the aircraft's ventilation system. The idea was that such an über
version of TB would be so difficult to treat because of its
drug resistance, the country's economy would be crippled
by the sheer expense of treating everyone infected. But now
it certainly appears that the über TB is no longer
necessary, the country's economy has already been crippled
by the current administration.

....Fred

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