Biological and Chemical Threat Primer

[izzyscout21]

Thanks!

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[realist]

That was a nice write up, good information

The problem with a biological, for the terrorists, is they take time to incubate and thus making it hard for them to claim credit. Some viruses may or may not be transmitted to humans. However they are always mutating this is why every year new vaccines are made to deal with the flu viruses. Toxins are out there and some are in the news now. We may come into contact with both virus and the toxins in some form during our lives. Obviously for viruses it would be the flu. For toxins it could be something such as salmonella, causing gastrointestinal upset, to coming in contact with botulism toxin from poorly prepared canned foods. When you look at weaponized biologicals, anthrax did just what it was designed to do, terrorize. The anthrax attack, which killed five people, a phenomenal amount of resources was expended. People were terrified of coming in contact with it. Yet when you look at history up until the 1950s it was not uncommon for at least one person in the United States to die from anthrax. All this was stopped when animals started to be inoculated.

The Aum Shinrikyo cult had over a billion dollars in assets and was unable to properly deliver their chemical and biological weapons. They went all over trying for find new agents. They even went so far as to go to Africa to see if they could get Ebola but it was too fragile.
For those who do not believe something like this cannot happen where they live should research the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh cult. They wanted to influence the local population of Dalles Oregon and gain control of the ballots boxes. The decided to put salmonella in the salad bars of the local restaurants. Over 700 people were affected. The health department shut down several establishments and wrote it off as poor sanitation. It wasn’t until a year later when one of their members brought it to the authorities’ attention an investigation started.