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Pastimes : SARS - what next?
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (957)12/5/2004 7:33:24 AM
From: Henry Niman  Read Replies (1) of 1070
 
If the recombinant maintained anything near its 70% fatality rate and human to human transmission, then it would take a handful (possibly only one) and he wouldn't even have to buy a ticket. Just hanging around an international airport and sneezing on money used to buy food at the airport fast food center may do the trick.

Alternatively, a more limited attack would involve the current H5N1 which is present at very high levels in duck excrement. This could be used to place H5N1 on money used at the local international airport. Again, no tickets necessary and if the terrorist was careful, he could do this for an extended time period. The human to human spread may be limited, but H5N1 infections around the world would create much more panic than the anthrax mailings of 2001 and there would be the possibility that one of the H5N1 infections would be in someone who also caught human flu, which could start a pandemic at the destination of traveler.
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