For this assignment Part One of your course project assume the role of Dr. Madness. Your rogue nation seeks global domination. With a bare bones laboratory and your exhaustive microbiological and epidemiological knowledge you (Dr. Madness) decide that the best way to rule the world is to create and disseminate the perfect biological weapon.
For this part of the assignment you will develop your weapon from the ground up. Discuss nearly all of the epidemiological criteria related to it and justify and discuss why it is used and how effective it is. This agent could be a hybrid of other biological pathogens or an entirely new one. If the agent is newly created there must be some basis and epidemiological support of a similar agent by which you can base your justification. In other words it will be unrealistic to create an airborne virus that inoculates and kills within one hour. There must be a realistic exposure and incubation time and must be supported through current agent biology or biochemistry (for example influenza exposure and incubation takes 14 days).
Taking on the role of Dr. Madness generate your superweapon and describe the weapon using the above mentioned criteria. Remember the focus in on creating something that becomes difficult to identify monitor or treat with prophylaxis. You will write out the proposal as Dr. Madness submitting this to his lead researcher to develop. This proposal should be approximately 5 pages in length but some submissions may be longer.
Submit your Bioweapons and Epidemiology Part One proposal in the assignment area.
Please be sure to review the Bioweapons and Epidemiology Part One Scoring Guide for information on how this assignment is graded.
Project Requirements
To achieve a successful project experience and outcome you are expected to meet the following requirements.