A biological attack on USA would likely become a pandemic

[quote]Me: CIA has caught terrorists with biological weapons. Tatarize: Name one![/quote] Here you go. http://www.cfr.org... "Have terrorists experimented with biological weapons before? Yes. CIA Director George Tenet has testified that documents found in Afghanistan showed that the *al-Qaeda terrorist network was pursuing sophisticated biological weapons research in Afghanistan*. Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, had an ambitious biological weapons program and released anthrax spores and botulinum toxin in Tokyo on several occasions, but none of the attacks inflicted any known casualties. Iraq, the Soviet Union, and other countries experimented extensively with anthrax bacteria and other germs as recently as the 1990s. (The United States abandoned its offensive biowarfare program in 1969 and destroyed its biological arsenal in the early 1970s.)" [quote]You seem overly obsessed with pipedreams that overstate and oversimplify the very precarious nature of epidemiology and bioterrorism. You'd cause more damage going to a Russian prison getting infected with multiple resistant TB and then spending a few months taking public transportation around the US. But even that would only infect a few thousand people and would still be treatable with vancomycin.[/quote] Okay. Since you don't seem to understand what I'm saying, let me copy a part of my last post. "Okay. Let's say someone with a medical degree were to get his hands on bubonic plaque. Now, by doing something with the genes he could easily manufacture the disease to be airborne, resistant to antibiotics, etc. He could also lenghten the incubation period. Now he would have the perfect weapon that is not likely curable, easily transmissable and has a long incubation period. So, he injects the bacteria into himself and walks around New York, infecting 100 people who infect their families, co-workers, anyone who they come in contact with and the second wave of infected infect anyone they come in contact with and they infect anyone who they come in contact with and the circle goes on and on. When the first symptoms appear, the infection is already in Europe, Asia, Africa, S. America, N. America etc. Once we reach this phase, the civilization is thrown back a thousand years. Survivors isolate themselves from anyone else for years. Pandemic." Questions? No? Moving on. In case you want to critizice my argument, I except you to tell me where EXACTLY I'm wrong, not just "You're wrong. Lol." [quote]No. The disease doesn't become contagious until after the first symptoms occur. You get a rash and then you can transmit the virus.[/quote] I'm talking about diseases overall. Not just smallpox. [quote]Lets suppose that magical fairies fly around the city spreading nerve toxin and stabbing people in the eye. The likelihood of that kind of magical perfect disease is roughly nil. Anthrax is easy, you can grow it in a bathtub, with limited expertise. It would be the most likely vector for a biological attack.[/quote] If you must condemn and ridicule me to the lowest level of hell, I suggest that you do it more stylishly. If I would go and get a high medical degree, I have no doubt whatsoever that I could engineer diseases to the way I want to. [quote]Well, umm, Anthrax is still the most probable form of a biological attack! =O[/quote] Voters READ THIS, please. Here I will make my last and best case. We cannot calculate the probability of what kind of an attack the next biological attack will be. It may be the avian flu, smallpox or ebola. It could be anthrax. It could be anything. Sure, anthrax may be easy to make, but the problem is that there are other as easy-to-manufacture diseases out there. Phytophthora infestans. Phytophthora infestans infects for example potatoes or tomatoes. Any human who eats the infected plants will develop the disease and can trasmit it to other people. Easy to make, easy to infect with, and easy to starve people with. Phytophthora infestans. The reason why you should vote for me.