Wasn't it who wrote:
>On Feb 5, 3:51 pm, Shawn Wilson <ikonoql...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Feb 4, 2:30 pm, bealoid <sig...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > assume a well funded group, with staff and equipment. (For example,
look
>> > at someone like Aum Shin Ryko cult managing to aerosolise Anthrax
into air
>> > for 24 hours.)
>>
>> > How hard is it for them to get a bunch of virus / bacteria / fungal
spores
>> > and 'gene hack' them into something really vicious - spreads like
measles,
>> > infects about 80% of people it contacts, kills 60% of infected within
4
>> > weeks, leaves the rest immune from future attacks, but with severly
>> > compromised breathing (eg COPD) and with other weaknesses.
>>
>> Not too hard at all, with the right resources. You don't even need
>> gene hacking, just get your hands on samples of the 'Spanish Flu'. Or
>> Smallpox. Or Plague (need fleas to spread that).
>
>Yes, what exactly are the "right resources" to get into the best
>guarded biolab in Russia and get away with it? Keeping in mind Tsar
>Vlad's area of expertise and likely priorities?
It might be possible to obtain Spanish Flu if you can find other Arctic
graves containing victims. Presumably the Longyearbyen Cemetery has been
made safe now, but since there were an estimated 50 million deaths,
there may well be other such graves, and they can't all have been found
and made safe.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/05/30/th
flu30.html>
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Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure
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