This is an amazing video[1] from Harvard Medical School released couple of days ago showing evolution of bacteria that evolve in 10 days to become resistant to antibiotics.
Here's a clip with a bit more information from the BBC Horizon popular science programme. http://v6.tinypic.com/player.swf?file=24goih4&s=6 (Sorry for the sub-optimal hosting, but YouTube's contentID blocks this clip.)
One of the things they don't mention in that video is what the safe human dose of that antibiotic is. I'm not sure where on that slab the dose of antibiotics starts killing humans.
Question that comes to mind is how easy would it be to take the bacteria that make it to the center, and put them on a new plate with a different antibiotic in the same configuration, and then repeat until you've gone through all available antibiotics, then scoop that last batch up and do something really nasty with it?
It must be harder than it seems, because otherwise why do terrorists and the like even bother with (seemingly much harder to obtain, though admittedly flashier) chemical and nuclear weapons?
Thus post attack the deaths would take a long time to add up and be hard to trace back to some attack.
PS: I had a foot of my intestines removed without being prescribed antibiotics or getting an infection.
Maybe that's considered a noble sacrifice, but I don't know what they think.
What terrorists are you talking about? Seems to me like 99% of terrorists use regular weapons I.E. explosives, guns, and knives.