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Re: OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-)
From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 16:03:21 GMT
Great book. Factual events. Scary stuff. While I was living and working in Northern Virgina, I went by the Hazleton Research Products' (HRP) Reston Primate Quarantine Unit in Reston right after it was literally decontaminated and razed. Nothing left but a pile of debris and a few bricks. I now have a brick from that building sitting on my bookshelves at home. ;-) The amazing thing is that it was right across the street from a daycare center. FWIW: http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/filo/ebor.html - ferg -- Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote: Or read 'The Hot Zone' by Richard Preston. Quick executive summary: there's 2 strains of Ebola - one that infects humans and monkeys, and is spread via fluids (usually when the victim bleeds out), and one that infects only monkeys, but spreads incredibly well through the air. And scientists have no idea what the difference is between the two, or why one is airborne, and the infects humans. That's part of why the CDC and everybody has a cow every time there's an Ebola outbreak - if a third strain surfaces that infects humans and is airborne, we're *screwed* (the monkey strain had a major outbreak in Reston Virginia in a quarantine facility - basically, if an infected monkey sneezed, every other monkey within 20 yards *will* end up dead. It was that virulent. Now imagine 1 infected person getting off the plane at JFK....). -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-) Blanchard_Michael (Sep 30)
- Re: OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-) Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 30)
- Re: OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-) Pierre Vandevenne (Sep 30)
- Re: OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-) Justin Mason (Sep 30)
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- Re: OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-) Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Sep 30)
- Re: OT, kinda has to do with security if you squint a bit :-) Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Sep 30)