Group 1(Collin, Dayne, Raph, Patrick, Enzo, Gwynne, Hanna, Kenji, Joana, Arnel)

How to make your bioweapon (Infograph)

Criteria:
Availability or Ease of Production
Easy to produce or replicate (can be mass-produced within hours or days)
Natural source (easier to produce since there is a known pathway, can be altered to hasten results)
(Possible to use: bacteria, viruses, toxins)
Incapacitation and Lethality
Balance between incapacitation and lethality (choose the right combo)
Less amount of dose (the smaller people get as a dose, the faster it may spread)
Longer incubation time (killing you slowly or a swift kill?)
(Possible effect: fever, paralysis, dermal conditions, digestive and respiratory complications
Appropriate Particle Size in Aerosol
Mode of entry (inhalation, oral, percutaneous, dermal)
Smaller the better (small size can enter and deliver almost anywhere)
(Possible to use: viruses, small bacteria, light toxins)
Ease of Dissemination
Proper dissemination place (public transportation, buildings)
Mode of dissemination (air-borne, water-borne, food-borne, sexual transmission, etc)
Stability After Production
High shelf-life (even bioweapons do get expired, must be able to be stored and remain viable and
virulent for long time)
(Possible to use: Bacillus anthracis
Susceptibility and Nonsusceptibility
Immunization (when all else fail, make a back-up plan)
Controllable (contain the spread only to your enemies)
(Possible solution: use only virus that can infect certain group of people with a specific gene)

Ideal bioweapon should possess these minor characteristics:
- Ability to be contagious like common cold viruses.
- Can mutate and infect other organisms like influenza viruses.
- Hijack immune system like HIV.
- Can cause complications such as cancer and lead to multiple organ failure.
- Adapts to different vectors like plague (Yersinia pestis)
- If not lethal, can cause paralysis, muscle soreness or related conditions.