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ase in the air duct. Yuri had the real anthrax ready to go in the pesticide truck. The hate group later found out what Yuri had done and killed him. The goal of the hate group was to release the bioweapon in the building, but that did not happen. That was the end, Yuri is dead and luckily no anthrax was release in the public. There are many people in the world like Yuri. They are just filled with hatred, and have the skills to do something about it. Its not a question whether bioterrorism will occur, but rather when? (Vector, 387). This is the issue we are facing in todays world. In 1984, followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh contaminated drinking glasses and salad bars in an Oregon town with salmonella. No one died; 751 people came down with the nausea, severe diarrhea, chills, fever and dizziness that mark salmonella poisoning. It was the first, and so far only, biological-weapon attack in the United States. (Newsweek, 24).The threat of bioterrorism has risen progressively in the world, particularly over the last decade. Consider for example of Aum Shirikyo, the apocalyptic sect that released sarin gas in the Tokyo subway in March 1995. All they had to do was fill plastic bags with the nerve agent sarin, slipped into a subway station and puncture the bags with an umbrella. These attacks are proof that biological terrorism is logistically possible. Bill Patrick express his feelings that, unless something is done, the possibility of a bioweapon attack by agents of Osama bin Laden is highly likely. The thought of this puts fear in our hearts. Luckily its not easy to mount a germ or chemical assault. Terrorists would have to obtain pathogens, culture them in vast quantities and the hardest of all, weaponize them. Obtaining the Pathogen is fairly easy for terrorist due to terrorist-friendly states. Anthrax is a relatively common veterinary disease. Molecular biologist Paul Keim of Northern Arizona State University, If a ...

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