Really. I'm willing to bet the corpses are on ice somewhere in Maryland by now.
I'm really not all that worried about Y. Pestis myself. Even the pneumonic form can be treated quite easily with proper identification and antibiotics.
I'm far more worried about what happened to the smallpox virus which some genius thought would be a good idea to store in Baghdad....
I haven't ever heard what happened to that.
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Only a maniac with a grudge against humanity would release smallpox, and the existing stores are hopefully well guarded in Russia and the USA.
Unlike Y. Pestis, which is readily available, and easily modified. Even in it’s natural state, it could be “weaponized” merely by injecting dozens of flea-infested rats in a crowded slum, just before releasing them in a dozen alleys. Any knucklehead could do that, and if it was a third world city with limited medical capability, say, Lagos, it would get out of control very fast.
The ability to treat it with ABx actually makes it more likely to be used. The user might target a certain population, sure that while the target zone would suffer, the outbreak could be contained with a ring of ABx given around the hot zone.