Ebola-style killer virus sweeps Afghan border

[Supreme Cmdr]

Whoa!!

[jstuart]

Scary stuff!

Makes you wonder, did US do something or someone else!

Hell of a way for population control

[Guest]

That's an understatement, SCARY stuff!!

[Guest Macon De'Witt]

Makes you wounder a lot of things .... I would hope its just fates twisted sense of hummour, after all the Afgan people arn't the enemy it's their government, and even that is still open to debate.

[Guest $iLk]

go here to see a story related, some suspect Bin Laden as the people who were the first victims had either just moved there from Afganistan or lived right on the border.

Possibly a biological weapons test by Bin Laden. We may see couriers entering the United States with the disease who attempt to infect as many Americans as possible.

Last I checked an NBC attack is consisdered use of Weapons of Mass Destruction - giving us authority to respond in kind.

Not endorsing it, but not saying we shouldn't either if we are targeted.

[Epsilon 5]

Holy cow!

[Soback]

I would probably be banned if I posted my opinion on this.

[Menchise]

I totally doubt that anyone had their hand in this. It sounds like a typical outbreak that's been worsened by the current situation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. When you have a contagious virus of this kind, all it takes is a dozen or so unsuspecting carriers among a few thousand refugees to create a disaster. Remember that cases were first reported in June and Pakistan's border was closed in September. How many carriers migrated between that time?

[ 10-04-2001: Message edited by: Menchise ]

[Guest]

Have you guys also heard of the case of Anthrax that was found in Florida.

They are saying that it is an isolated incident, the man that is hospitalized is supposed to have drunk water from a creek.

Interesting and frightening!!

[Guest]

UPDATE!!

You probably know this already, but the man that had contracted Anthrax, died yesterday, and they have found a second case. The man's co-worker was found with the anthrax virus in his nasal passages.

Therefore the virus was breathed in, the spores must have been suspended in some sort of breathable form, THIS IS NOT natuarally occurring.

The building of the publisher of the National Enquirer and a number of other supermarket tabloids was the source of the spores. They have closed the building and are doing a full investigation.

[demolition]

The US couldn't of had anything to do with it because the first casses came in in june

they attacked us in september, unless we knew they where gunna attack we'd have no reason to do such a thing and neither the senate nore the people would endorse such an act

[Urza]

Raises an eyebrow

Facinating. It sounds like something out of a horror movie. Then again this whole terrorist bit is like something in a horror movie.

If Bin Laden was going to test a biological weapon, why would he do it on the host country's citizens, rather than something like an American embassy. Then again, Bin Laden is an insane madman, and his actions frequently defy logic.

[Cmdr Nova]

Man, I'd say "good for the tabloids", (I hate the tabloids) but this is f*#%!@* anthrax! According to what I've been seeing on NBC, there was a piece of mail that went to the building (like fan mail), that had a powdery substance all over it..... Like a powdery substance that someone could make, so one could inhale a chemical substance (makes it easier to mail)......... Makes you realy think.