From: David Lubkin (extropy@unreasonable.com)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 09:10:30 MDT
There are outbreaks of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in
Afghanistan. Since we know that Bin Laden has been testing biological
weapons (there have been first-hand reports of testing grounds with
hundreds of dead animals), this could be an accidental or deliberate
release of something that may be headed our way.
http://www.google.com/search?q=cchf+afghan&btnG=Google+Search
From the WHO fact sheet, http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact208.html, it
appears that CCHF doesn't have the transmission or lethality
characteristics one would want in a weapon. But its recent presence in
Afghanistan and Pakistan is suspicious.
-- David Lubkin.
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