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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:49AM (1 child)
It's been years since I read up on leprosy. But, it's not immediately fatal, if it is fatal at all.
Searing insight and top-notch medical expertise like this are what keep me coming back to SN! I mean, at once Runaway insinuates that he ever did "read up" on leprosy (more correctly, Hansen's Disease, by the way), and then goes on to point out that it is not deadly because it is not immediately deadly, sort of like the Republican repeal and erase of the Affordable Care Act. Wow, just wow! How can any one mind contain both so little actual information, and contradictory information, at the same time? I stand in awe, Runaway19567! Please tell us more about your knowledge of infectious diseases! Hoof-and-mouth? Brucellosis? Beaver-fever (Tularemia)? Shirley you know that all these have been weaponized by both the Americans and the Soviets. (And a lot seem to come from pig-fucking.) Help us protect ourselfs, Runaway! We all rely on you!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @09:54AM
Get a life, bitch. Doesn't that Great Dane over on the next block want some company?