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GENO123
Joined: 28 Jan 2010
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 Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 7:16 pm Post subject: North Korea: Smallpox and Bioweapons Are the Real Threat |
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War With North Korea: Smallpox and Bioweapons Are the Real Threat, Not Nukes
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To defend us against these threats we have resources such as the CDC, still reeling from an 8% ($450 million) additional cut under the sequester, and this week's coincidental deployment of the 250-man 23rd Chemical Battalion to South Korea. Considering our failure to develop better vaccines to stop the yearly flu outbreaks that can kill tens of thousands of people, or to offer basic public health precautions like guaranteed sick days and free vaccinations, it remains uncertain whether we are capable even of attempting to stop a new highly infectious disease before it spreads out of control. It is a tenuous basis for a national defense.
It is time for America to reevaluate its defense priorities. Money spent on maintaining battleships and a doomsday nuclear arsenal should be tapped to double the National Institutes of Health and double and redouble the CDC. We should be able to identify DNA sequence from every infection that lands in a hospital the day it presents. We must be fully prepared to apply a much wider range of therapies � including DNA vaccination, interferons and other cytokines, and bacteriophages � to any outbreak. We ought to treat the seasonal flu as a biopreparedness exercise and not be satisfied until we stop it at the airport. We must greatly accelerate the pace of vaccine development and deployment against things like dengue, West Nile virus, and Lyme disease. We need better ways to stimulate the private pharmaceutical development of antibiotics and other useful drugs. |
http://www.policymic.com/articles/32885/war-with-north-korea-smallpox-and-bioweapons-are-the-real-threat-not-nukes |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
Location: Earth, Solar System
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| Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2013 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Bioweapons are in a way worse than nukes diplomatically. With today's level of interconnectedness, a bioweapon unleashed on any connected nation (which is pretty much every nation), is basically unleashing it on the world. A bioweapon on NYC? Within 72 hours every major capital around the world would be dealing with an outbreak and would be none-to-pleased with North Korea over that. |
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12ax7
Joined: 07 Nov 2009
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| Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2013 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Steelrails wrote: |
| Bioweapons are in a way worse than nukes diplomatically. With today's level of interconnectedness, a bioweapon unleashed on any connected nation (which is pretty much every nation), is basically unleashing it on the world. A bioweapon on NYC? Within 72 hours every major capital around the world would be dealing with an outbreak and would be none-to-pleased with North Korea over that. |
Either way, simply threatening nuclear war is now considered a crime against humanity because of the indiscriminate nature of the weapon. |
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