(October 9, 2014 at 7:46 pm)Chuck Wrote: I think the reason no such human biological bomb attack has occurred is simply because terrorists lack the sophistication to create a biological warfare agent, and natural diseases that human biological bombs could easily and purposefully infect themselves with in the last few years lacked sufficient lethality to really create much terror, like SARS, or lack the ability to transmit from human to human, like bird flu.
Ebola with a death rate of 50-90% and ability to transmit from human to human has the lethality to create the sort of terror which would make it an effective biological terror weapons.
*If* it were easily transmissible. That appears to not be the case. I agree, if it were, the prospect would be daunting.
