[ExSoldier]

Did you ever see or read Steven King's The Stand? Genetically engineered influenza virus got loose and killed 99% of the planet's human population. Imagine some type of viral hemorrhagic fever (similar to Ebola)

I loved The Stand the movie but not the book. An Influenza pandemic could still kill 25 million globally just like it did back in 1918. Doesn't take a terrorist to engineer that. Ebola and most other hemorrhagic fevers don't spread that easily (have to come into contact with the bodily fluids) and I think that some guy oozing blood from his eyeballs and very skin is gonna put most folks off! Ebola is about 80% lethal but it still takes a week to die. Oh and plain old bleach will sterilize it right out of existence. So it can be kept from spreading....at least from specific clinics or hospitals. In fact most people who get infected after an outbreak (great movie) are medical workers.

[appalachian_dweller]

Yep. I forgot, the hemorrhagic fevers are spread by body fluid contact, but image some type of VHF that was airborne?

While the terrorists don't have the resources to produce such a nightmare pathogen, if one fell into their hands they would be foolish enough to deploy it.

I think the next attack will a low tech, extremely creative, well timed series of events designed to damage the economy by taking direct aim at the American public.

If the scare enough people into not spending money they can weaken the economy - or so they think.