Posted on 04/10/2005 11:42:01 PM PDT by BigFinn
Among the concerns is the possibility terrorists on a suicide mission might deliberately travel to Marburg-infested areas and then travel back to the capital of Luanda on their way to the West.
A severe form of hemorrhagic fever akin to Ebola, the Marburg virus spreads on contact with the fluids the body produces in reaction to it, such as blood, urine, excrement, vomit and saliva.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Actually, our current thread here on FR has accumulated quite a bit of information, although this WND article here is a good starting point.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381197/posts
I hadn't thought of that possibility.
The time has come to interdict all traffic out of Africa. Quarantine Africa NOW!
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Quarantine may be insufficient.
I'm leaning towards firebombing.
Mining all the borders?
We can't stop everything coming out of Africa - at least not oil.
We should, however, be keeping people from sub-Saharan Africa from leaving that continent.
I don't see how we could ever aspire to be the land of the free while pursuing a policy such as you suggest.
Catapault + plague victim...one of the oldest documneted uses of a bio weapon...as a species we've "been there and done that"
Much like hollywood, nothing new to see here, this ones a re-make...
MD
Leave it to WND to try to spread panic.
How are these terrorists supposed to get from there to here in time? And then how are they supposed to spread the disease?
Nothing to see here...Move along.
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