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darkknight111 ago

I guess my academic background in microbiology is finally going to be of use despite the economic downturn. Just in a way I never expected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio_cholerae

A primer on Vibrio cholerae, the bacteria responsible for Cholera.

The strains that cause disease have a plasmid (basically a mini auxilary genome) containing a gene that produces a toxin known as CTX. Plasmids can be spread through horizontal gene transfer (where a bacteria injects a copy of its plasmids into another bacteria).

Cholera is spread through the oral fecal route, which along with respiratory is the optimal pathway for biological weapons. Production of killer bacteria via specific plasmids is actually quite easy to do. There's proceedures to induce specific genes into a bacteria culture.

The primary cause of death is dehydration, a perfect method for those seeking to kill children for the purpose of organ harvesting.

If all of this is true (in terms of this thread) then we may have a "smoking gun" (forgive me for saying that) in terms of the howdunnit of the crimes commited in Haiti along with some bits of the "whodunnit" and "whydunnit".

Tanngrisnir ago

Great info, darkknight111! This is astounding.