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What about biological agents used as weapons?

Let's see we have: Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Botulism, Glanders, Ebola, smallpox, and Typhoid fever.

That the new issue.

Biological agents have rapidly been exploited by Anti-American militia groups like Al-Queda for use as weapons.
And as American research expands looking for vaccines we face the problem of starting a bioweapons race with other nations, like the nuclear arms race with Russia during the cold war.

that should be a fun race.

Yea really fun. You know I have always wondered about the very first case of AIDS,
How did the AIDS virus get into humans. I mean AIDS before it passed into humans was an immunodeficiency virus found in Monkeys, so it went from monkey to man and spread through the Gay community (as was once thought of as the "Gay plauge") and then to heterosexuals. I have been trying to trace through literature to the earliest case of AIDS. There was also a report by a African American student that AIDS came from a White Man who was having sex with monkeys, and I am white and even though it sounds like some African American urban legend you never know mabey it was true. But there no need to blame gays now I mean the virus in already in circulation, theres not much we can do about it now.

P.S. I don't have sex with monkeys.

that will take some time searching through all that!i far far from a medical expert so if you find how a virus changes like that let me know.i remember like a year ago i heard someone speaking on the fact that virus's mutate and what would happen if it became airborne!!holy-shit!!be honest,are you someone that think's the govt. created hiv?

I don't think any country is ever right 100% or the time or wrong 100% of the time. The US has committed acts of atrocities like ALL OTHER COUNTRIES. But we've also done a great deal of good.

I think the Geneva Convention is somewhat an antiquated and weird notion. It reminds me of the British redcoats complaining that the American colonists wouldn't fight like gentlemen. They hid behind trees instead of standing in straight lines and getting shot to death. The geneva convention also only applies to another countries military. Al queda and terrorist organizations are not covered under it, but the Iraqi national soldiers would be covered by it. But in this case it really isn't easy to tell the difference. And cutting off the heads of civilians is not covered under the geneva convention either.

And I wouldn't quote Aljezzera as a credible newspaper. Everyone knows they've been sympathetic towards Al Queda, the Bathists and other terrorist networks. You do realize that americans aren't the only group of folks that lie doncha?

France, germany and russia were directly aiding in Saddam circumventing the UN sanctions by dealing in oil with him. They got rich and made Saddam rich at the same time. They knew that if the US went in and overthrew Saddam, their dirty laundry and decade long back room deals with Saddam would come to light.....and they were right cause that's exactly what happened. Where's the outrage over those actions. Russia isn't even listed as a free country anymore. Germany and Japan would both be in a complete state of ruin if we hadn't propped them up through the Monroe Doctrine. and we didn't even make them repay the millions in debt.

Saddam was the first one to ignore the world community, which is why the sanctions were enacted in the first place. Of course it didn't work, since Saddam found bedfellows with the French, Russian and German government. He continually told us he didn't have WMDs but then wouldn't furnish any proof that the weapons he did have (and we know he did have them cause he tested mustard gas on the Kurds) were destroyed. Maybe they don't keep records of that stuff, but they should. He's been uncompliant for decades. And they didn't even really punish him for Kuwait invasion. People are screaming for Bush's head saying he invaded Iraq but what about the invasion of Kuwait, why weren't those folks screaming for Saddam's head? The UN allowed him to run back to Iraq, and wouldn't let Bush Sr. Go in after him and it's been one human rights violation after another since then. All of it could have been averted if the UN would man up and kick some ass when it needs to be kicked.

I think there were better political alternatives to the War in Iraq, or at least a better way to force Saddam into the war. We should have given the UN a time line and said if Saddam doesn't show some credible proof that he has destroyed WMDs and no longer has them then they would have to agree to the War. (of course they wouldn't cause all the countries that voted against the US and Great Britian were found out later to be supporting Saddam) but that would have made them look like the bad guys and not the US. We should have kept the oil for food scandal secret and used that to manipulate France, Germany and Russia to force their hand in helping with the Iraq rebuilding effort. Politics isn't about childish ideology of honesty. If you're the only honest card player at the poker table, you're gonna get all your money taken and go home broke. And I think Bush failed in this sense, he didn't play the part of a good politician.

And if the world community wants me to start listening to them through Nato and the UN. Well, they have to do their part. When there are peace keeping missions the US sends the large majority of troops every single time. During the tsunami we sent our tankers and marines, everyone else sent a handful of guys (well, Japan and Thailand did a great deal) and some money. We put our friends and family on the line while they sit there and talk shit. If the world community wants me to respect them then maybe they shouldn't go against there own sanction and do business with Saddam. Not only does the US house the UN we also pay the large majority of their expenses and we are the ones sending the most troops to assist in their peace keeping goals.

The role of Nato and the UN is in some ways to police the world. The legue of nations failed when it came to Adolf Hitler and Germany, and the UN is a complete failure in their inability to remove terrorist threats.

Spain got hit with a bomb, they removed their troops and some time ago they got hit by another bomb. We warned them that that would be the result, but no, we were the bad guys once again.

We'll I doubt it will become air born, it does mutate however, the sequence of protiens in the lipid bilayer surrounding the virus change and mutate and as a result of this diversity of HIV strains makes developing a vaccine very difficult.

It could actually have been possible for the government to have created the AIDS virus, but I don't know if I believe that because the U.S. government would never kill their own civilians. If you ask me AIDS is a product of to much 1980's queer buttsex with multiple partners.

I myself don't get anal, even with hot women.

And I am sorry for the above statments because I know they a sickening and perverse.

Biological weapons scare the beejeezuz outta me. Chemical weapons are horrid as well. I had a cell bio professor who graduated from Harvard and had spent some time as a consultant to the military. He was working on making better skin grafts. He was telling us about mustard gas, basically your skin is held down by desmosomes, the mustard gas destroys these desmosomes. So your skin bubbles off your body when it contacts mustard gas.
The difficulty with AIDs is that it doesn't kill people. It destroys their immune system slowly until the person catches a cold which kills them cause they can't mount an immune response. Ebola would be easier in many ways to control since it kills fast, meaning less opporunity for someone infected to walk around the normal population to spread it. But it's airborne so that makes it pretty deadly. A good biological weapon should have a pretty long incubation time so that the victim and infect the population. Small pox would be pretty devestating to a population.
As for how aids mutates, most viruses mutate rapidly due to short generation times. They also have in born mechanisms that make it easier for them to mutate. These are harmful because of the method in which we fight infectious particles. Our immune response in many cases hinges on our cells being able to recognize certain proteins on the surface of a virus. After one attack, in a normal person their immune cells will differentiate to memory cells and effector cells. These memory cells will quickly create antibodies towards these proteins that they recognize. So if these surface proteins constantly change, we can't recognize them. And then the Aids virus infects immune cells so not only can't we recognize them, we can't build up memory cells and mount an effective immune response. So the viral titer just keeps increasing until your white blood cell count drops to the point where a common cold will take you out.

Horrible horrible stuff. I'm sure the origins will never really be found out. Maybe it was a military experiment but I doubt it. Biological weapons designed for military use would choose air borne transmission rather than a blood borne transmission. They also wouldn't wait 30 years to kill someone. Small pox is much more effective and has been around much longer. Since it's been eradicated most places don't stock high volumes of vaccine. One theory I think is more plausible than some white man having his way with some slutty little simian is perhaps a tribal African ate contaminated meat. Maybe it was a cannabalistic tribe or maybe raw monkey is a delicacy to them.

Actually the Spanish Conquistadores used biological warfare by giving the native cultures (I don't remember if they were incan, mayan or aztec) blankets that were used by folks with small pox and other european originating diseases which ended up killing more of these people than the european firearms did.

i agree with you philly420 100%!well put!

fuck that,don't feel bad delta 9,someone should say it!