SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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?
takyon: Bill Gates: Bioterrorism could kill more than nuclear war — but no one is ready to deal with it
Dept. of Defense aims countermeasures at WMD, synthetic biological threats
Bill Gates: Bioterrorism Weapons Could Kill 30 Million
Vaccine Development Agreements Target Encephalitis Bioterror Agent
Public Meeting on Biodefense Budget Reform
How the House health care bill undercuts bioterror and pandemic defenses
Bengaluru: Wipro gets email threat 'pay 500 cr in bitcoins or suffer bio-terror'; warned of attack by May 25
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @04:08AM
O157:H7 and O104:H4 will not spread between people asfaik. Sucks to get it but it won't "burn" through a region.
There IS however some suspicious activity going on. In 2009 WHO changed the definition for pandemic. So that the protocol can be activated without heightened mortality. This makes it possible to force countries to vaccinate their population. In February 2009 Baxter Pharmaceutical, Austrian subsidiary shipped a batch of unattenuated bird flu 2005 together with ordinary seasonal flu to sixteen laboratories in Czech Republic, Slovenia, Germany. That is the optimal way to make the viruses mix and create a cocktail that will be deadly and contagious at the same time. But a Czech lab technician at the Company Bio Test, tried the batch on ferrets by pure hunch to be sure it was safe before being delivered as vaccine. The next day the lab animals were all dead and a alert was sent out to stop the batch.
If it had went through, a gigantic epidemic might have been set of. So some people say they will just refuse to get the vaccine then. Sure, but states like Massachusetts, US can charge you 1000$ per day for that. Regardless the government can in most cases impose itself on any citizen by various means. And in emergencies law makers are eager to get things done with speed and thus skip checks and sign away liabilities.