Re: DU suitcase shipment (reply) - "radiation signature"

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Louis,

This is very true and part of our problem with

perception of bioterrorism, which is also related to

our fear of radiation, chemical weapons, etc.



When epidemics, like SARS, are unique, the public

health system has to first recognize there is a

problem.  Once it is, it is no longer a surprise

attack.  The anthrax attack was not noticed initially

since the last large case in in the 1960's.  With our

heightened vigilance, biological attacks will be

harder to pull off.  



And, as you point out, with virulent diseases like

smallpox, Eboli, etc., the victims are acutely ill and

do not travel well.



--- LNMolino@AOL.COM wrote:

> In a message dated 9/17/2003 8:59:58 AM Central

> Daylight Time, 

> Michael.Kent@nmcco.com writes:

> Some of these listed items would not even have to be

> smuggled in.  Take your 

> terrorist willing to die, give them smallpox, Ebola,

> etc., and let them fly 

> till they drop, literally.  That would spread the

> disease like wildfire.



> They'd be very ill and you'd spot them in a

> heartbeat.





=====

"Crime is contagious.  If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law."

Louis D. Brandeis, Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. U.S., 1928



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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