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SkyDaddy7

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12. Yeah, "foot & mouth" is not "high profile"

Reply to intaglio (Reply #7)

Fri Aug 8, 2014, 08:52 AM

Aug 2014

However, EBOLA is most certainly the highest profile bio-attack one could reach for...If 5-10 people all in different locations around the northeast or lets just say in NYC but not connected to each other or Africa come down with Ebola then everyone would know or at least a have strong suspicion someone is infecting people.

The USSR spent a lot of money trying to weaponize Ebola & who knows if they had any success but according to what I read it would be extremely hard to do for a bunch of religious radicals...But it would not be hard to get a blood sample & spray it on people or their food when not looking or their clean clothes in laundry mat or whatever...It would only take a few to create chaos.

"Foot & Mouth"...Geez.

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WHO declares Ebola epidemic a global health emergency [View all] Bosonic Aug 2014 OP

And follows this up with a detailed plan, We Hope! eom littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #1

Did anyone see that hearing.... ReRe Aug 2014 #2

the articles I read yesterday said they'd "gone medieval," leaving corpses out in the street magical thyme Aug 2014 #17

That's right... ReRe Aug 2014 #20

Thanks to austerity, the networks that may have helped with a rapid mobilzation deutsey Aug 2014 #3

Have there been any other global emergencies declared by WHO? Divernan Aug 2014 #4

Not to be so-called "ALARMIST" but... SkyDaddy7 Aug 2014 #5

Probably the same reason they don't spread foot and mouth in US cattle intaglio Aug 2014 #7

Yeah, "foot & mouth" is not "high profile" SkyDaddy7 Aug 2014 #12

Biological (germ) warfare - a long history and not to be dismissed lightly Divernan Aug 2014 #8

Thank-you for the info! I have been reading... SkyDaddy7 Aug 2014 #14

IMO war is the last thing we need on the globe right now. Back in 1918 WWI helped to spread jwirr Aug 2014 #11

Tom Clancy wrote a novel, Fortinbras Armstrong Aug 2014 #15

Same thought has crossed my mind. 840high Aug 2014 #19

Here's a link to the official WHO statement. Divernan Aug 2014 #6

Call me whatever makes people feel better, but this is NOT getting enough attention, period. Moostache Aug 2014 #9

Any govt. preparations are likely kept very, very secret. Divernan Aug 2014 #10

But what about the "secret serum?" mountain grammy Aug 2014 #13

the "secret serum" is a product in development magical thyme Aug 2014 #16

Nigeria declares national emergency over Ebola Bosonic Aug 2014 #18

Brampton (Ontario, Canada) Civic Hospital’s patient sparks Ebola worries Electric Monk Aug 2014 #21

I do not for the life of me understand this... Earth_First Aug 2014 #22