The Islamic State (ISIS) may be thinking of using human carriers to infect its enemies with the Ebola virus, a national security expert claims, saying terror groups would not have to weaponize the deadly virus to spread the disease.
“In the context of terrorist activity, it doesn’t take much sophistication to go that next step to use a human being as a carrier,” Retired Capt. Al Shimkus, a professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College, told Forbes.
Shimkus said the “individual exposed to the Ebola virus would be the carrier,” and with West Africa in an open epidemic, it would not be difficult for terrorists to steal infected bodily fluids to use elsewhere.
Shimkus said that ISIS or another terror group could also send some operatives into an outbreak region so they could intentionally expose themselves to the virus, and once exposed, they could head to a target city or country.
Troops have been using human carriers to spread disease for centuries, even during the Middle Ages, said Shimkus, when they threw corpses of people who had died of the bubonic plague over enemy walls to spread the disease.
He admitted that with Ebola, infected people could be identified before they leave a country, and he admits that he does not think the virus would spread quickly in advanced nations like the United States because their healthcare systems are better equipped to isolate and stop the virus from spreading.
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This would be more likely to infect and kill all the IS terrorists. Which would not be a bad thing.
Charlie, it has a few weeks of incubation time. By the time a terrorist finds a big city and tries to infect many, its a terror. This is not listening to the dead to blame the wicked.