EBOLA SPREADING - NEW CASES NOT CONNECTED

AP ^ | 12-29-01 | ALEXANDRA ZAVIS, Associated Press Writer

[NetValue]

If anyone unleashes a bio-terrorist attack on the US I predict the policy would be for a nuclear response. I hope even the terrorists are not that foolish. We would dismantle them from the inside out. No terror-supporting government would be left standing.

[tet68]

There's simply no way to even handle the stuff outside of a level 5 biocontainment field without infecting yourself.

Ah there's the rub,if you have people prepared to die!

It would have a nasty way of coming back to you though.

[Bryan24]

FANTASTIC book. Remember the FAA shutting down the Air traffic control system? That ain't nothin. Great book. I think it gives a good insight into how stressful presidential decision-making can be.

[Autodidactic]

Another Clancy classic I believe; Rainbow 6. Great pc video game too.

As to all the thought of bioterrorism, I've personally been scanning the news lately looking for mention of outbreaks in the US of Anthrax or Smallpox or whatever after all those threats that some "big event" was supposed to happen at the end of Ramadan.

Since there was no high profile attack, a bioterrorist attack at the end of Ramadan [what, about 10 days ago??] wouldn't become evident until right about now......

I don't know about you but it creeps me out when one of those rag-headded heathens says that the destruction of the US is immenent. All I can think of is Dark Winter and shudder.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Robin Cook's "Vector" was about inhalational anthrax and botulism, wasn't it? I've read it four times already, love the ending.

[janeliberty]

I think you're referring to Rainbow 6 by Tom Clancy. Good book. Above environmental extremists and ebola.

[janeliberty]

Yup. Anthrax and botulism. It seems pretty easy to get those bio-terrorism authors mixed up. After a while they sort of blend together or is it just me? Can't explain why but these type of books are addicting. I picked up two more of Cook's books from the library "Contagion" and "Toxin". Can't imagine why I have trouble getting to sleep!