The Importance of Ebola

[Soderlund J Marcus]

Wendy L Applequist (wapplequ at iastate.edu) wrote:
: Even the diseases most easily transmitted by air will not infect EVERY
: person on Earth -- no flu pandemic has ever made everybody sick at the same
: time.

True. *BUT* don't forget the 1918 epidemic that circled the world several 
times. An "emerging" Andromeda-virus is certainly a possibility. And 
there are people trying to create monsters in Army-funded labs. 

Of course, the perfect biological weapon is *not* highly virulent so as to 
not let it get out of control and inflict casualties on the aggressor. 
This is why the BW "menu" in the past has not concentrated heavily on 
such killers as Ebola-Marburg, Lassa, Congo-Crimean, Hantaan and others 
of the IV-family.