Comment on Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d like one example where MRSA has been used for bioterrorism. Never heard of it when I was a medical lab tech in the military, nor as a medical lab scientist later in my life. Bioterrorism is extremely rare.

  E. coli O157:H7 would be a better choice, or Vibrio, or really any of the enteric pathogens introduced to food or water supplies. MRSA isn’t a great example of a good bacterial to weapons.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well, the 1984 bioterror attack associated with the Rajneeshee was done with salmonella. The question this raises is if there are any advantages to cultivating it as an assassin’s weapon.

    I’m not saying I know it is, only that the two associated deaths make for a pretty amazing coincidence.

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    • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Salmonella is not MRSA (methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The point I was trying to make is Staph isn’t a good bioterrorism agent. It doesn’t spread like weaponized anthrax, it’s not particularly deadly, and it can’t be spread by food/water like the enteric pathogens. It’s just not suitable or we’d have researched the fuck out of it at USAMRIID.

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