[hennie pennie]

Like you, I hope all the rumor & paranoia regarding a potential bio-attack is just that: rumor and unfounded paranoia -- however, a simply search on the keyword: UKRAINE brings up numerous articles about terrorism. Here's a recent one.

Oct.26th: Ukraine detains three suspected Islamic militants

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374916/posts

[Uncle Ike]

I’m not definitively ruling any possibility out, at this stage of the story...

There have been a number of ‘suspicious’ (and under-reported) outbreaks of Pneumonic Plague (which is a relatively rare form of the disease, according to the literature) in various places around the world over the past couple of years - most notably, an outbreak in one of the North African nations that was associated with a bio-research facility, earlier this year....

However, the reported details of this story make it a fairly low-probability (but not zero) scenario....