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What Stops Terrorists from Spreading Leprosy?
Leprosy is bacterial. In addition to curing leprosy with anti-biotics, 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?
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
