May? after 3,000 articles on the topic and with 3,000 westerners in ISIS, it's a guarantee that they have the idea. I won't critique the methodology, but we know they are thinking about it.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread
But, but, but ...
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, told “Fox News Sunday” that it was “far-fetched” to think that terrorist would use this as a bio-weapon.
How many more lies will be coming from this administration?
With winter in the northern hemisphere approaching, how viable will Ebola be in cold climates?
They are way too late, Obama beat them to it.
How tough would it be for ISIS to send infected terrorists to the US when Obama won’t even curtail flights fron infected areas and our politically correct Homeland Security is body searching little old ladies and infants looking for terrorists?
Seeing that Ebola isn’t even contagious until symptoms appear, a terrorist would have a hard time infecting himself with the hope of infecting a large number of other people before he dies. Even a terrorist doesn’t function too well when debilitated by high fever, headache, vomiting and diarrhea.
A dozen infected Muslims riding NYC subways for a few weeks is a scary thought....
Possible, but not likely.
First, it is too risky. Lots of their own evil Moslems might be sickened by it in the process.
Second, it just does not have the impact a bomb does. Their favorite MO. Bombs strike fast, are very showy, and obviously attributable to some perp. Disease spread is sort of...eeyhh.
“Shimkus doesn’t think the virus would spread exponentially simply because, in theory, advanced health care systems would be equipped to identify, isolate and stop the virus.”
I want to know how they think this would work out.
Lets say that IS sends in 6 operatives. They get sick and two of them take a ride on the NY subway system. The other four take a tour through America’s hub airports. (As we’re not temperature screening, they could get pretty far)
A week or two later, we start to get our first sick. But they’re going to be missed by the screening. At first it’s only flu-like symptoms and the sick don’t have the travel history. The hospitals are going to pull the same crap as they did with Duncan, give them some fluids and antibiotics and send them home and allow them to continue to infect their families.
By the time we realize what’s happening, it’s going to be difficult to put the genie back in the bottle.
Now let’s say that this happens during the peak of the cold/flu season. How in the world are we going to be able to isolate and screen thousands for early stages of the disease?
The flu that hubs and I had last year had diarrhea, vomiting, muscle pain and a fever of 104. We were sicker than we’d ever been. If we walked into a hospital with those symptoms during an Ebola outbreak, they’d have to isolate and test us.
Now take that scenario and multiply that times 40,000.
Bring Out Your Dead
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The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
The instant the outbreak was announced I knew they would jump at the chance to do it.
Porous borders open us up to an attack that will make 9-11 look like a field day.