have to do a survey on bioterrorism, and see what is the majority answer i'll get 1. Do you know what would happen if there were a bioterror attack on the United States? 2. Which of the following three biological agents do you think terrorists would most likely use in a damaging attack: Ebola, smallpox, or anthrax 3. Why did you choose the one you did? 4. How much damage would this agent cause? 5. What would be the effects of this damage? 6. Do you think that hospitals would be able to help all of the casualties if they could be transported to emergency rooms quickly? 7. Which of the following tasks would be the most important job the government could do: look for the terrorists who did this; provide needed medical supplies; quarantine the area in which the outbreak occurred; use the military to control panic among the public? 8. can the government protect our food and water supplies? 9 can the general public be vaccinated for most infections caused by germ warfare? 10. Would the most serious attack come from the use of germ warfare such as the Ebola virus, from chemical agents such as anthrax, or from nuclear threats such as dirty bombs? Imma need around 10 people to answers
1. Do you know what would happen if there were a bioterror attack on the United States? Serious Death Toll 2. Which of the following three biological agents do you think terrorists would most likely use in a damaging attack: Ebola, smallpox, or anthrax? Anthrax 3. Why did you choose the one you did? No known Cure 4. How much damage would this agent cause? LOTS 5. What would be the effects of this damage? Instant Nausea and eventual death 6. Do you think that hospitals would be able to help all of the casualties if they could be transported to emergency rooms quickly? No, Not for the whole American Population 7. Which of the following tasks would be the most important job the government could do: look for the terrorists who did this; provide needed medical supplies; quarantine the area in which the outbreak occurred; use the military to control panic among the public? Provide Medical supplies. Anthrax can be easily transported in Post and such 8. can the government protect our food and water supplies? Yes 9 can the general public be vaccinated for most infections caused by germ warfare? Possibly 10. Would the most serious attack come from the use of germ warfare such as the Ebola virus, from chemical agents such as anthrax, or from nuclear threats such as dirty bombs? Nuclear Threats.
I was going to answer the questions, but they're not specific enough. The biological agents can be weaponized and dispersed in multiple ways. Anthrax weaponized as an aerosol was delivered to several people through the mail system here and killed a small number of people and most who got sick survived. Anthrax genetically altered could kill billions. The aerosol weapon could be delivered from a crop dusting plane and kill millions. In the mail delivery scenario, the hospitals had no problems. In the crop dusting plane scenario, all of the emergency services could be trivially overwhelmed.
Thats what i thought. A weapon that can be launched in a missile can kill billions whereas sending everyone a letter is completely different
1. There would be a high amount of casualties, the world will freak out, and it will result in another war. 2. Smallpox 3. It would be highly unexpected, and they have too many ways to detect anthrax. 4. It will kill thousands of people over a period of time - If it is well planned (most likely), it may even reach the millions. 5. Pfft, too many to say. Poverty, under-population, quarantined areas, zombies (awesome), extremely tense relations between countries, travel outside of your country may be temporarily banned... Lots of shit will go down. 6. At first, yes. Once the smallpox starts to spread at a fast rate, I think they will be overwhelmed. 7. Both quarantine and finding medical supplies are priorities. 8. Yes. 9. If the government can react fast enough to have a nationwide vaccination. 10. That's a hard one. Terrorists love to generate fear, so the obvious choice would be the "dirty bombs". But, the virus seems like something else they would do... There is nothing more horrendous than a virus breakout - Not that I've experienced it. I don't really know much about smallpox, so it is probably all wrong. You can tell your teacher that you heard this from two non-American!
