From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>The concern is probably with delivery systems. Bubonic plague does exist in the wild but it doesn't really find its way into large masses of humans. An maliciously altered delivery system could change that.
Subject: Re: The Crud redux Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:29:09 -0500
At 07:55 PM 1/15/2003 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61287-2003Jan15.html
>
>The FBI said Wednesday that vials containing samples of lethal bubonic
>plague reported missing from Texas Tech University had been located.
>"We have accounted for all those missing vials and we have determined that
>there is no danger to public safety whatsoever," FBI Agent Lupe Gonzalez
>said.
Maybe someone here can correct me on this, but wasn't yesterday afternoon's
hysteria a bit overdone?
After all, bubonic plague *already exists in the wild* throughout much of
the American West. In a modern health environment, it simply isn't all
that deadly.
The professor was arrested, by the way. http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/01/16/missing.plague/index.html
Jon
C.J.: "The more photo-friendly of the two turkeys gets a Presidential pardon and a full life at a children's petting zoo. The other one gets eaten."
Pres. Bartlet: "If the Oscars were like that, I'd watch."
~The West Wing~
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