Leprosy is bacterial. In addition to curing leprosy with antibiotics, we also have anti-biotic resistant leprosy. What prevents a terrorist from deliberately infecting themself with leprosy and then engaging in promiscuous activity? How would a city like San Francisco, Washington DC, Paris or Berlin react to leprosy? When leprosy has a long incubation period, are we certain that leprosy isn't spreading already?
martyb: I was debating whether or not to run this story; from the Wikipedia page, "Contrary to popular belief, it is not highly contagious." But, there is more to this than just antibiotic-resistant leprosy. It invites discussion as to other agents with delayed response that could be employed. In addition, given a terrorist's intention to affect some other group, what options do they have which would affect that group without also adversely affecting their own group? How many of their own group are people willing to "harm" in the pursuit of harm to another group?
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(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:24AM (3 children)
Given that no article source was given for this, did someone just happen to watch Papillon [wikipedia.org] or a documentary about Kalaupapa [wikipedia.org] or similar and start wondering about this?
I would think it would be more efficacious to spread hepatitis [wikipedia.org] and HIV [wikipedia.org], rather than leprosy.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:32AM
Shock value LOL
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @03:40AM
Shirley you could find some sufficiently disillusioned young gay men to spread GRIDS to as many other men as possible before their cocks rot off from the gay cancer.
(Score: 1) by justinb_76 on Monday May 08 2017, @12:10PM
or you could use Salmonella, like they did way back in 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack/ [wikipedia.org]