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Not to mention the terrorism angle. How hard do you think it would be for al queda to get their hands on an ebola victim, harvest a gallon of body fluids, and smuggle it into the US? Because distribution wouldn't be hard at all; down here in texas, there are any number of outdoor misting systems that are aimed at busy streets full of sweltering tourists.

Bio-terrorism looks so easy.

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Ebola is nothing new. If terrorists wanted to use it as a weapon, they could have done it a long time ago. Now would actually be a bad time for a bioterror attack, because people are on high alert for anything that could be ebola. It would be a lot more effective if it came out of the blue, giving it time to spread before anyone realized their fever was actually ebola.

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