[AngryAmerican]

Obviously not as vulnerable as the citizens of Baghdad are to an airburst of about a 50 megaton "nuculear" weapon.

[archy]

Obviously not as vulnerable as the U.S. population and the U.S. economy in the event of a retaliatory or preemptive release of HPAI in the continental United States.

And the possibility of a polyvalent bioweapon should also not be overlooked.

The 1983-84 Pennsylvania outbreak resulted in over $400 million dollars worth of damage and the deaths from disease or proactive slaughter of over 17 million birds. And that was probably not a deliberately instigated incident.