IS may use Ebola as bio-weapon against the West_ Experts warns

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The virus is transmitted by direct contact with an infected person who is showing the symptoms and it wouldn't be difficult for fanatics to contract it then travel to countries they want to wreak havoc in.

Capt. Al Shimkus Ret, a Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College, yesterday said that the strategy is entirely plausible.

It doesn't take much sophistication to go to that next step to use a human being as a carrier

Capt. Al Shimkus Ret

He said: "The individual exposed to the Ebola Virus would be the carrier. In the context of terrorist activity, it doesn't take much sophistication to go to that next step to use a human being as a carrier."

And Professor Anthony Glees, Director at Buckingham University's Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, agreedthat the strategy might be considered.

He said: "In some ways it's a plausible theory - IS fighters believe in suicide and this is a potential job for a suicide mission. They are sufficiently murderous and well-informed to consider it, and they know that we've been remiss in the UK."

However, Jennifer Cole, Senior Research Fellow, Resilience & Emergency Management, at the Royal United Services Institute said that now would not be the best time to employ this strategy.