We don't need foreign countries conducting bio-warfare research - we have a food supply system that injects multiple forms of antibiotics into livestock:

Tara Smith, an assistant professor at the University of Iowa Department of Epidemiology, and her graduate researchers found MRSA in more than 70 percent of the pigs they tested on farms in Iowa and Illinois. [...]tested 20 workers at the Iowa swine farms and found that 45 percent carried the same MRSA bacteria as the pigs.

The New York Times recently reported a highly probable direct link between our unsustainable system of modern industrial agriculture and two recently emerging phenomena that threaten us all. The author makes the very logical connection between the recent epidemic of MRSA (an antibiotic-resistant strain of Staphylococcus bacteria) which is now killing more Americans each year than AIDS (100,000 infections leading to 19,000 deaths in 2005 alone, according to estimates in The Journal of the American Medical Association) and the deplorable conditions that exist in the CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) in the US and other countries.
The Food and Drug Administration is clearly caught between a salmonella tainted tomato and a hard place - they said, "was that even though we are several weeks out from when the food was first consumed, new cases are still showing up." They have no idea where the contamination came from and can only vaguely say which states it did not originate in. (see more here)

The latest news release mentions Mexico and South and Central Florida as the source of the Salmonella Saintpaul tainted tomatoes. These areas are also the main producers of tomatoes this time of the season. The bacteria could come from insect or bird feces.

The problem with tomatoes is that Salmonella actually penetrates the skin and can't be washed off. So if you eat a raw tomato, you can get the intestinal revenge!

I doubt that the Iranians did it.

what are you guys talking about?whoa i must really catch up.

Nano technology can potentially lead to human engineered miniature weapons that may spread like a bacterial infection in the enemy and get out of hand.

Too bad I am not a screen writer! I live just around the corner from many of the large movie studios here in LA, and that would make one heck of a scare movie!

i cant say much tho coz i dunno bout it..uff sorry..

but ehm..no 1 can decide if it will the end of the world or not..its not related tho but if we r aware of that, then we better save n taking care the world start from ourself from a very small things in our environment..n this is serious guyz..

take care

Prey, good book I read about 5 years ago.

Interesting novel, has shades of the killer bees.

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