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Ohhhh Shit!
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:13pm
by LT.Hit-Man
Theres another ebloa outbrake in the congo this ccan not be good I bet you a few million that there's going to be a bunch of terroriets heading over there
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:15pm
by Superman
Damn! *Calls airline to cancel tickets to Congo"
Re: Ohhhh Shit!
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:15pm
by Stormbringer
LT.Hit-Man wrote:Theres another ebloa outbrake in the congo this ccan not be good I bet you a few million that there's going to be a bunch of terroriets heading over there
If it is they won't likely make it back. Ebola is a damn deadly little bug and if those dumb fuckers want to mess with it I can only hope it's a reston type strain.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:16pm
by Sea Skimmer
There are a couple Ebola outbreaks every year. It has a high fear factor, but it doesn't spread easily enough to make a good bio weapon.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:17pm
by Stormbringer
Sea Skimmer wrote:There are a couple Ebola outbreaks every year. It has a high fear factor, but it doesn't spread easily enough to make a good bio weapon.
I don't think there are out breaks ever year, every few years maybe.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:17pm
by irishmick79
There was an oubreak of ebola in Kinsasha a few years ago, 1997 I think. They had it contained pretty quickly.
If I was a terrorist, the congo would be the LAST place I would want to go. There are something like five or six different factions going at each other in the congo, and it's home to the biggest civil war in Africa. You don't exactly stay hidden very long in a disease ridden combat zone.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:27pm
by Sea Skimmer
Stormbringer wrote:Sea Skimmer wrote:There are a couple Ebola outbreaks every year. It has a high fear factor, but it doesn't spread easily enough to make a good bio weapon.
I don't think there are out breaks ever year, every few years maybe.
There was one in Gabon and another in the Congo in 2002, another in Gabon in 2001, one in Uganda in 2000-2001 as well. In 1999 it struck in the Congo once again and in Sudan. Nothing in 1998, but in 1997 and 1996 there where out breaks in Gabon. I'm sure I've missed one or tow, and it streches back longer then I've listed.
Mabey not a couple every year, but certinly at least once every year we have Ebola active.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:33pm
by LT.Hit-Man
irishmick79 wrote:There was an oubreak of ebola in Kinsasha a few years ago, 1997 I think. They had it contained pretty quickly.
If I was a terrorist, the congo would be the LAST place I would want to go. There are something like five or six different factions going at each other in the congo, and it's home to the biggest civil war in Africa. You don't exactly stay hidden very long in a disease ridden combat zone
Remember that loony cult that gassed the subway in japan, they had tried to get there hands on it, I'm sure that Bin Laden will make a grab for it, if your will to die for your cause and you have a chance to gain a bio weapon with no cure to use on your enemy would you not take the chance to gain it?
Edit: fixed markups ~ David
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:38pm
by Captain tycho
I wouldn't put it past some of the rabid Islamic terroist's out there. But most people will have more sense than going over there. Course, terroist's are rabid.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:48pm
by LT.Hit-Man
Captain tycho wrote:I wouldn't put it past some of the rabid Islamic terroist's out there. But most people will have more sense than going over there. Course, terroist's are rabid.
Yep and thanks david for fixing up my last post damm computer is giving me a problem
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:52pm
by irishmick79
But rabid islamic terrorists are also smart enough not to go waltzing into the middle a 5 side civil war that they have no stake in...
Just my two cents. I think they'd like to get their hands on the stuff, I just don't think they have the capabilities to get it transported out of Africa without either inadvertantly causing an outbreak or getting caught.
Also, alot of them are only rabid when they have oppotunities to die gloriously killing scores of their enemy. Getting killed by a nasty disease isn't exactly the kind of death these guys have in mind, so they might have reservations about actually hands-on playing with the stuff.
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:56pm
by The Yosemite Bear
Trust me there are nastier bugs running around.
Every year Squirrels and other rodents have to have their numbers greatly curtailed in order to prevent a certain Dark Ages pest from making a comeback.
Ring, o' Ring o' Rosie
A pocket full of Posie
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down!
Posted: 2003-02-18 10:59pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Except that rhyme is a modern invention, a song for kids' dances. We were speaking Middle English when the Black Death occured:
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/rosie.htm
Anyway, the actual extremely short lifespan of Ebola, not to mention it's extreme contagiousness, would make it quite worthless as a bioweapon.
Posted: 2003-02-18 11:22pm
by Sokar
Ebola is too lethal to make a good bio-weapon. I know that sounds like an oxymoron, but Ebola often kills all the available hosts before it has achance to spread. Even out in the Congo, shit hole that it is, local health services can often contain an outbreak within two to three days.