ABSTRACT
What does it mean to consider pandemic influenza as a bioterrorist threat? At least since 1997, with the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) in Hong Kong, two global threats became increasingly conflated: emerging disease and terrorism. The anthrax letters following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington and the global spread of SARS that coincided with the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, further reinforced this entanglement of imaginaries, as did the pronouncements of politicians who were prone to analogize obscure networks of terror with the invisible diffusion of predatory viruses. 1
