The response from medical professionals was extremely enthusiastic. It doesn't take a medical degree to know that malaise, headache, backache, and fever typically equate to nothing more than the flu. Probably not, and that's exactly what bioterrorists will bank on. The disease can kill 30 percent of its victims. Because vaccinations haven't been given in the United States for the past 25 years, even those immunized aren't likely to be protected.
Biological weapons are surreptitious.
Patients don't begin to have symptoms for hours, days, or weeks later. And, because those symptoms are ubiquitous, it's difficult to diagnose as a biological attack. These people get on planes, trains, or buses and it easily spreads. Another flu-like weapon of choice is anthrax. Although an antibody is available, if it isn't taken within days of the onset of symptoms, death is imminent.