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  Likelihood: Extremely Unlikely A terrorist could deliberately infect himself with the Ebola virus and travel to a major city, seeking to spread the disease to its citizens (via sexual contact, sharing needles). Most people infected with Ebola die within a week, and suffer obvious, debilitating symptoms (including profuse bleeding from major body openings); thus any terrorist's "window of opportunity" to infect others would be brief. Given its gruesome symptoms and the relative difficulty of transmission, Ebola is perhaps more valuable to bioterrorists as a threat than as an actual weapon.
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