The Great East Asian Bio Threat – Can We Be Safe With Bio-germ Protection?

June 29th 2011, Taiwan performed numerous drills to check how effectively their emergency response personnel were when dealing with biological or biogerm weapons. These exercises tend to be more prevalent in the western world. But in East Asia, there has actually been a lot more use of biological weapons. Taiwan might be a lot more worried by the state-sponsored biological attack, as in another Chinese ploy to take control the island with no dangerous invasion.

Much of this thinking is a result of the availability of biological weapons in East Asia. For example, two years ago, there’s an epedimic of pneumonic plague in China, with a number of dozen incidents, and several deaths. This is the same ailment that killed above a quarter of Europe’s population within the 14th century. Prior to that, it did the same damage all over Eurasia, all the way up to China and Southeast Asia. Plague (usually bubonic version, found from insect bites, as opposed to the less available pneumonic form, spread by sneezing) is not the big killer it used to be. That is mainly because of better public health, and particularly due to the growth and development of anti-biotics and bio-germ protection in the 1940s. Plague, as opposed to most mass killers, is not the result of a virus, but with a bacteria.

East Asian nations have demonstrated an enthusiastic involvement in biological weapons. Therefore at the same time British scientists were developing penicillin during World War II, the Japanese Army, as Unit 731 in northern China, had been trying to turn plague right into a weapon. That proved impossible to do. The Japanese dropped bombs filled with fleas (the normal carriers of Bubonic Plague) on Chinese communities, and the result was often no plague instances at all.

The recent deaths in China create good headlines, but evidently efforts to design (via genetic engineering) a “Super Pneumonic Plague” that’s resistant against antibiotics along with other bio-germ protection products, hasn’t prosperous to date. There are much better super-germ opportunities with viruses. However the primary problem with one of these biological weapons is that they kill indiscriminately. Transform it loose, and your own human population is in danger. A more serious problem is the growing ease with which scientists can do genetic engineering on viruses and bacteria. It is seemingly that eventually, a seriously (as in killer) germ will be created and released by accident, since a few bright (however doomed) teenager couldn’t resist messing regarding with mom’s genetic engineering gear.

Perhaps the most discouraging aspect of terrorist usage of biological and biogerm weapons is the fact that strikes are often ignored. This was the Aum Shinri Kyo encounter, where several of there cautiously organized and carried out attacks were ignored, even if they caused some incidents. Locals would comment “must have been something up,” or, “it’s the weather” in the wake of their attacks. Not the stuff to become acquired from the media, even when a couple of bodies were hauled away. This is the end disappointment for any terrorist, never to be seen by the media.

There were numerous attempts to make use of bio-germ weapons. Until quite recently, they’ve been significantly unsuccessful. Was this because of bio-germ protection?