Risks of Bioweapons and Pneumonic Plague
As far as you're aware, what are the most risky
or controversial experiments that
have happened in bioweapons so far?
Pneumonic plague.
What's that?
Which-- Okay, we, you know, we all know bubonic plague.
Pneumonic plague is the aerosolized version of
bubonic plague. Bubonic plague, a flea
from an infected flea bites you, you get bubonic plague.
Pneumonic plague, it gets into your lungs, and it becomes
aerosolized. Pneumonic plague has a case fatality rate
of one hundred percent. Unless you get antibiotics into your
system
within twenty-four hours, you have a chance at living.
If you don't, you die one hundred percent.
It is what the Defense Department, FEMA,
HHS, CDC, WHO is probably the most
afraid of. It's called a tier one select agent.
It's mo- one of the most likely to be used,
and it's a hundred percent
killer. And now imagine
if you could genetically modify that to evade cure.
So imagine if antibiotics no longer work.
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