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I read somewhere about a black market for ebola survivor blood. At first I misread the title and thought it meant a black market for ebola-infected blood (or eb

I read somewhere about a black market for ebola survivor blood. At first I misread the title and thought it meant a black market for ebola-infected blood (or ebola-infected cadavers). Now that is a truly scary possibility - terrorists intentionally infecting themselves with ebola, then going into airports and other high density areas, infecting surfaces and as many people as they can before succumbing (or maybe even blowing themselves up with a suicide bomb - who knows). I think that's one possibility that's been overlooked and underscores why we really need to be funding greater vaccine/cure research (in addition to the obvious reason of potentially saving millions of lives in Africa).

anigbrowl 12y ago
Terrorists could have done that years ago with AIDS or Hepatitis C but they never have - it's not obviously an effective propaganda tool and religious terrorists are likely to have hangups about dying in an unclean fashion.
- ivanca 12y ago
  Why you are being down voted is a mystery to me. (I upvoted you but I have been vote-banned AKA my votes do nothing at all)
- noir_lord 12y ago
  > it's not obviously an effective propaganda tool It's actually a terrible propaganda tool, the "goal" so far as there is one is to strike terror into your opponents (and gain supporters) while not doing something so heinous that you call down the wrath of your target since terrorism is usually the far weaker side opposing the stronger side. I think for example IS/ISIL/ISIS are just about to cross that line if they haven't already.
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