Quotes About Bioterrorism

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

So while present-day terrorism is mostly theater, future nuclear terrorism, cyberterrorism, or bioterrorism would pose a much more serious threat and would demand a far more drastic reaction from governments.

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

One of the things that I always say about bioterrorism, whether it's ourselves at the federal level, folks at the state level, or folks in the private industry, we've done many great things, especially since 9/11.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

Maybe it's some Bioterrorism test being run by the government. Don't drink the tap water or seafood until I do some testing. Bubba I don't normally drink my seafood Bubba, but Nick

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

Leaders at the top of al Qaeda's hierarchy, the evidence shows, completed plans and obtained the materials required to manufacture two biological toxins - botulinum and salmonella - and the chemical poison cyanide.

fact, the first legally proven fatality from domestic bioterrorism was the 1973 murder of West Oakland school superintendent Dr. Marcus A. Foster, an African American, who was felled by a cyanide-tipped bullet from the arsenal of the Symbionese Liberation Army.22

Smallpox, polio, Ebola, anthrax

In other words, they wanted to make a synthetic plague that was actually far deadlier than the original version.

New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.

Mother Nature is the greatest bioterrorist of them all, with no financial limitations or ethical compunctions.