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Texas official warns against “measles parties” as outbreak keeps growing (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe... Prions are a different beast altogether in terms of illness. Even the most terrifying forms take years to debilitate and kill you. I don't think most countries want to wait that long to cripple an opponent, and definitely won't want to unleash anything on a neighbor that will certainly come back at them. Right now the only thing that truly gets prions to be gone is incineration levels of heat.

So I don't think biological warfare is going to be on the table. Maybe terrorist type attacks, where the asymmetrical nature of the opponents makes the user unconcerned about potential effects on themself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'd say the most likely path to prion outbreak would be lack of food regulation. Thousands of people could get sick/ die from contaminated ground meat, and without FDA functioning, it will be too late to prevent it.