Originally Posted by
CDTraveler
...I'm in the medical field and have been reading lately about some of the possible biological weapons; using one of those in a shoe polish sized bottle, you could easily kill off most of the pax on a large plane.
Now we're definitely getting off track, but I just want to point out a few things. I'm going to be very generic here for obvious reasons.
1. Incubation and infection periods for bacteria and toxins, such as mycotoxin, is half a day to multiple days or more depending on the particular one in question. You're not going to bring a plane down this way.
2. Dissemination on an airplane of bacteria is not a practical(in the minds of a terrorist) use.
If the tsa has concerns regarding bio/chem use, none of their actions/sops at the checkpoints displays these concerns. In fact, their organization, processes and the way they go about screening actually creates a very large hazard and a target rich environment.