Is this pneumonic plague? It’s so fast-acting and spread so fast that it would seem that it might be.
Antibiotics work, but MUST be started EARLY. There is no vaccine.
http://www.dhss.mo.gov/Ready_in_3/BiologicalAgents/PlagueFactSheet.pdf
How did this happen?
Four possibilities:
(1) the good old fashioned “nature's own” way via rats, mice, fleas.
(2) nature had a little help from (insert alphabet agency of choice).
(3) they were playing “Junior Cave Bio Weapon Scientist” and things got a little out of hand.
(4) they were test subjects, willing or otherwise, and sacrificed to further the greater cause.
It really does not matter.
What do we know?
Four certainties:
(1) a bunch of turrurists are now dead that were not dead before (score 1 for our team)
(2) the turrurists know they have a bio weapon in their midst. (score one for their team)
(3) the turrurists have working knowledge of how that weapon works. (score one for their team)
(4) the turrurists have working knowledge of a crude delivery system for that weapon. (score 1 for their team)
Bio weapons in and of themselves are ancient and crude weapons: nature unleashed on itself. Containing, controlling, and delivering them are something altogether different. These creeps are consummate opportunists. If I am celebrating anything it is not their losses but the "heads-up" we've been given for having discovered the genie is out of the jar.