Bird flu, swine flu....

...how many animals were purposely infected with new strains of diseases and then were not properly destroyed after the test reached it's conclusion?  I have no doubt most of these animal diseases were actually man made.

And if you wanted to infect a population, you'd usually use the food supply.  CHICKENS!  What better way to spread disease than by masses of chickens!  Regular birds themselves excrement while in mid-air, usually caused by muscles in flight.  You think, well it's bird poo, it'll just drop.  Not necesarily, depending on the height, the volume of air and spread of material can become almost aerosol like in content.  A single seagull could infect several dozen people depending on how high it flew before releasing.  Nasty I know, but if you wanted to infect the masses....

Now we're seeing a lot more land based mammal diseases.  Tasmanian devil?  Not the most friendly species, but quite a few in the southern hemisphere do keep them as pets, and now they have this disease that's ravaging their species.  The right conditions the disease could spread to humans, but would have to be so highly mutagenic that it's nearly impossible.  However it does share some characteristics with other mammals, such as...pigs...and then you have a TRUE swine flu. Since genetically speaking we do share some DNA with that species, we can be more easily infected.

We're basically losing an uphill battle.  We've only barely scratched the surface of disease/illnesses.  It doesn't help that many doctors around the globe are screwing up and labeling new diseases, even though they are old diseases.  "OHHH but it has these other symptoms!"  So?  The common cold doesn't effect each individual the same.  And not all the telltale signs are there.  Is it the cold, or a variation of the flu.  Or is it a strain of flu, where it's resistant to today's medicine.

Still, many of these diseases were collected by biological government ran labortories, and I have no doubt that any improper safety measures taken, could have released several genie's from the bottle.  A pathogen that could destroy an enemies grain fields?  It exists.  We dont' dare release it, because the chance that it might spread, or mutate.

Unfortunately that pathogen, used to be an innocuous minor grain killer that was buffed up, by the labs.  Any disease you see today is nothing more than souped up killers, created in labs.

don't be silly, the place for a biological agent is still the public water supply.  Not only is it the premier choice for direct contamination, with evaporation you get indirect contamination all the time over an immeasurable vector.  Plus, when the public figures out what's going on, you have an instant, indigenous black ops program sowing distrust and revolt against the government who must be caught in false denials about the safety of the public water supply.

I mean if we were into that stuff

we're not into that stuff