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Offline Tiara

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Originally posted by Sandwich

This from Mrs. Axe? *shakes head sadly* :sigh:

Chopping flies with an axe isn't too much fun or easy. Last time I tried that I ended up with one chopped mosquito and one chopped in half desk. :blah: Instead I 'modified' my swatter by putting tiny daimonds on it. That should... puncture those damned mosquitos :D
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The virus can survive for a short time outside of a host, but like most viral infections, it needs cells to infect, and quickly, the Aids cells themselves have a moderately short coherent life with which to find and infect another cell. In a human host, this is plenty of time, however, in this situation, I don't think there would be much threat unless you get a situation such as the Hep-B case in Israel, which came from a piece of bone from the suicide bomber getting imbedded in a bystanders skin, carrying Hep-B. This COULD cause infection if the bomber had been suffering from Aids or any other number of illnesses :(

Personally, I'd be far more concerned with the number of airborne agents a bomber could carry, which would be thrown far and wide by the explosion.
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Offline Tiara

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Ofcourse they could've laced some nails with packages of AIDS and have it blow up so the nails can penetrate + infect ppl. However, terrorists tend (sadly with some exceptions) not to be very smart people.
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They weren't gonna just spray Acme "AIDS" bottles ont he bomb, you know - they had infected blood, so that'd take care of needing a cell, wouldn't it?
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Not unless he's bringing along an oxygenator, a filter, a pump etc, he would have to carry so much equipment to keep the blood viable he wouldn't have room for the bomb. The only way Aids could effectively be used as a weapon is if the person themselves had been deliberately infected with the disease.

  

Offline Tiara

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Ofcourse they could just set sick, infectues and filthy rats loose in a city :p

Ok, I'm gonna shut up now before terrorist copy my idea and I get the CIA, NSA and FBI on my back.

What?
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