Weaponisation of Ebola by Muslim terrorists

[Anomalocaris]

You are right but you are also overlooking the fact that it did get recognized and a possible outbreak was prevented. It is bad, but could've been a whole lot worse.Yes humanity is stupid, but the western nations do have the resources to put proper containment strategies in place, a lot quicker than the African nations can.

Whether the outbreak is prevented is yet to be seen. One of the infected nurse flew on a plane with hundred plus passengers the day before she reported symptoms.

Yes humanity is stupid, but the western nations do have the resources to put proper containment strategies in place, a lot quicker than the African nations can.

The question is not whether the US can do better than some African country. The question whether the US can do well enough to control any outbreak on its own soil. At the moment it is not clear exactly how good is well enough. So one could only hope to do as well as one possibly can. Here I think as good as one possibly can for the US is rather worse than for much of the rest of the industrialized western nations. The reason is I think a larger percentage of population in the US would lack the proper mindset to support a containment strategy that would calculatingly increase the risk to a smaller number in order to reduce the risk to a larger number. I think more Americans have been indoctrinated in the last 30 years into the view that the most honorable social attitude is a psychopathic everyone for himself attitude.

...but there are better alternatives for causing mass panic and terror.

I don't think so. Ebola can be inflicted on the US through the simple expedient of several plane tickets. One needn't make or bring a bomb, one needn't have anything that would raise an alarm at any check points. One only needs to travel to the infected area first and then come to the US under a different name. The level of organization and planning needed to borrow the Ebola epedemic in African as a tool to spread terror in the US is far less than conventional means of terrorism.

It presently doesn't have a reason to mutate in that direction, but then again I am not really someone who can predict such things... but if it does mutate that way, and if we don't have a proper cure, then it won't really need terrorists to weaponize it anymore.

Mutation doesn't occur for a reason. What is more is it can already be an effective weapon even without it.

The infection has spread so far and so much mainly due to geopolitical and socio-economical reasons, not because of it's own infectiousness

It could easily spread without the same geopolitical and socio-economical reasons because a small group wants it to spread and are willing to contract the disease and die to spread it.