Swine Flu Bio-Terrorism ?

Photos

No footage found.

Swine Flu sprayed in cinemas,shopping malls, subways, rush hour trains. Aerosols of the patogen sprayed in crowded streets, these are the poor man's nuclear weapons, horrific weapons of mass destruction that can be made in a small laboratory. That costs less than $5,000 U.S. The weapon's objective is to create panic and fear in the civilian population and destroy most human life of countries such as the USA. A Swine flu bio-terrorist virus, capable of entering the human body multiplying, causing death, producing epidemics using a category of peptide that have a patho-physiological effect. 

The production of biological weapons is allowed in North America, research and development in biological warfare agents has no mechanism to allow it to be monitored. The activities of individuals or industry with dual use unhindered. A verification process, the Bush administration rejected sometime ago. Compared to other weapons chemical or nuclear, biological weapons are attractive to terrorists for several reasons.

Agents of biological warfare are living organisms that reproduce inside the host, they are much more potent. A few grams of a biological agent, can cause damage far in excess of a nuclear weapon. With bio-terrorism, small amounts can be smuggled into countries such as Mexico and are easy to hide. The freeze-dried form can be transported across borders in small amounts by ordinary mail and in the country itself. Seed cultures can be smuggled and laboratories then produce.



The production of biological agents involves materials and equipment that are almost entirely dual-use, with applications in pharmaceutical, food and pesticide industries. A laboratory fermentation plant suitable for the production of the biological weapons could be built with about $10,000 U.S. dollars in the US much cheaper in Mexico. Except for a small seed stock of the pathogen, no specialised materials are required. Nutrients such as a fermentation medium, glucose, phosphates, peptone and a protein source are widely available and are routinely imported into countries that have fermentation industries.

A fountain pen of freeze-dried seed culture, grown for example in a fermenter in Mexico with a nutrient medium, kept at a constant temperature, can result in a lethal weapon more destructive than an atomic weapons deployed in North America . Once the biological agent is produced, they are processed into a form that is stable in storage for dispersal. This is the most difficult part for a terrorist organisation but with the peptide of Swine Flu this is not a major difficulty, its neutral nature can exist indefinetly. This is the reason for it to be used for bio-terrorism. Stability is achieved by rapid freezing and subsequent dehydration under high vacuum, a process known as freeze-drying.

In a few hours, a device mainly used in the pharmaceutical industry, may have reduced a solution of Swine Virus and a protein stabiliser to a dried material that was ground to powder form.The simplest methods to achieve attack over a widespread area like the USA is to turn the freeze-dried powder into a biological aerosol, a stable cloud of suspended microscopic droplets, each containing millions of virus particles. The droplets remain suspended in the air in major city such as Mexico and can be carried in the wind over large distances to Texas for example.

Biological Swine Flu aerosols may have been produced by a simple piece of machinery that sprayed the virus through nozzles. Aerosol sprays and the subsequent respiratory infection may have increased the effectiveness of the pathogens. Aerosols of Swine Flu maybe the origin and method of a terrorist attacks. Aerosol dispersal, would also have allowed for control of particle size and density to have maximized the effect on the targeted population. 

A widely held view among experts, is that all steps are accessible to a terrorist organisation.The virulence and the exponential growth of the virus in the host swine may have been produced in a matter of days.The incubation period of a biological weapon is an advantage for terrorists, to be on a plane out of Mexico and away after committing the act. The disease could not be distinguished from a natural swine outbreak for quite some time. Much of the information is available in open literature. Terrorist biological weapon production can be carried on under legitimate biotechnology industry. Working with pathogens is extremely hazardous, however, a facility meant for terrorist use is unikely to be concerned with such measures.

Now we have a Swine Virus that the UN says cannot be contained it triggers more serious questions like the article above raises. Did the outbreak In Mexico have terrorist origins ? What happens when Swine Flu crosses with Bird Flu ? If the UN declares at such an early stage as this, that containment is impossible what chance has the world under the above circumstance ?

With the recent American invasion of Iraq and the resulting deaths of more than 1.3 million innocent people, coupled with the US's unconditional support for the killing of Palestinian civilians, using American F16 fixed-wing aircraft bombing a totally defenceless imprisoned population, there are now tens of millions of motivated people, inconsolable family members, angry relatives of the victims who have been motivated by this aggression to carry out such an atrocity. If the latest outbreak is not such a biological attack, then surely as night follows day it is just a question of time before it happens, as the countless occupation wars have proven.

NowPublic

Tags: Crime | Iraq | flu | virus | Gaza | World | mask | MASKS | phuket | US Politics | swine | UK Politics | SWINE+FLU | SWINE+FLU+MASK | SWINE+FLU+VIRUS | SWINE+FLU+VIRUS+MASK | Bio+Terrorism