The raised awareness of the potential horrors of bio-terrorism may shortly lead to the vacination of 0.5M healthworkers in the US against Smallpox and measures to detect containers of bio weapons. Surely then, the most difficult bio weapons container to detect would be a human.
In other words, could a suicide terrorist infect his or herself with a disease and take employment somewhere that put themselves in contact with lots of people e.g. in a large restaurant, in order to carry out a biological terrorist attack?
The thought that created this fear, was the memory of the story of Typhoid Mary. – Didn’t thousands of people die when she deliberately infected people with Typhoid as she worked as a cook?
Looking into the true story of Typhoid Mary however reafirms the notion that one of the most worrying things about biological weapons is that they are more readily weapons of mass hysteria than destruction.