I would add one note to this interesting paper.
Some years ago, when researching historical seismicity in S China, I came across some original accounts of the 1894 plague outbreak in Hong Kong. While I don't have the exact details to hand, I remember that the deaths that occurred were exclusively or almost exclusively amongst the Chinese population; Europeans either didn't contract it, or if they did, were successfully treated and survived. This is further evidence that even 100 years ago western medicine was capable of negating serious danger from plague outbreaks.
Roger Musson
BGS
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> The Benfield Hazard Research Centre has just published a new
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> on 'Plague and bio-terrorism' by Dr Graham Twigg, Centre for
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> History, University of London. Using historical and epidemiological
> evidence, the paper argues that plague has serious limitations for
> terrorists as a potential weapon of mass destruction, even
> though it could
> cause fear and panic.
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