Terrorists Could Use Ebola To Create Dirty Bomb To Kill Large Numbers In The UK, Says Cambridge University Disease Expert -- Daily Mail
* Dr Peter Walsh says group such as Al Qaeda could use virus to create bomb
* Biological anthropologist says risk of Ebola reaching UK is small
* 'Bigger risk' is that terrorists manage to harness virus, says expert
* Bomb could cause 'large number' of horrific deaths
The deadly Ebola virus could be used by terrorists to create a dirty bomb capable of killing large numbers of people in the UK, a Cambridge University disease expert has warned.
As fears grow over the spread of the disease across parts of West Africa, biological anthropologist Dr Peter Walsh said that although the risk of it reaching the UK was small, a group such as Al Qaeda could use the virus to create a weapon.
There is currently no vaccine and no cure for Ebola, which kills up to 90 per cent of its victims.
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My Comment: I have doubts that such a weapon is feasible .... and even if it was .... I doubt that it will be effective in making a significant number of people sick. But the psychological impact of such a bomb going off in a major populated city would be completely off the scale.
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There are so many technical road blocks to using ebola as the payload for a dirty bomb that I can't even begin to list them, but the most obvious is obtaining enough blood and then disseminating it without immolating the virus (so explosives are out).
Fourteen years ago I would never think that anyone would sacrifice their lives to obtain and build such a device, but now that people are flying airplanes into buildings...
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