Tuesday, August 05, 2014

An Ebola "Dirty Bomb"?

From CBS Atlanta:
A Cambridge University disease expert warns that terrorists could be able to build a dirty bomb containing the Ebola virus.

Speaking to The Sun, biological anthropologist Dr. Peter Walsh says that the risk should be taken seriously of terror groups getting their hands on the Ebola virus.

“A bigger and more serious risk is that a group manages to harness the virus as a powder, then explodes it in a bomb in a highly populated area,” Walsh told The Sun. “It could cause a large number of horrific deaths.”

Walsh states that groups might try to harness the virus out of west African nations where the outbreak is prevalent.

“Only a handful of labs worldwide have the Ebola virus and they are extremely well protected. So the risk is that a terrorist group seeks to obtain the virus out in West Africa,” Walsh told The Sun....
In the words of Mark Twain: "Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

1 comment:

Epaminondas said...

I question whether any virus can sustain heat without critical deformation/destruction