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Back to the Past with
Biological Warfare
6th Century BCE- Warriors used these biological agents with their weapons to kill and incapacitate their enemies.
14th Century BCE-catapults used to hurl cadavers of plague victims into the city of Kaffa, killing many with the disease and initiating second wave of the Black Death in Europe
American Revolution- British used smallpox as a weapon, giving civilians the disease and hoping they would give it to rebel troops
World War 1-scientists and military officials applied the knowledge of microbes to trasmit illness, infecting animals and cultivating anthrax and glanders as weapons
World War 2-Japanese military practiced biological warfare, testing lethal disease agents and dropped paper bags filled with plague-infested fleas over Ningbo and Quzhou and contaminated wells and distributing poisoned foods
Cold War-biological weapons programs in the Soviet Union and the U.S. explored hundreds of different bacteria, viruses, and biological toxins
1984-followers of Bagwan Shree Rajneesh sprinkled the intestinal pathogen Salmonella typhimurium on salad bars throughout their country
1996-religious sect Aum Shinrikyo released rain gas in a Tokyo subway
2001-a letter containing anthrax spores was mailed to Torn Brokaw at NBC News in New York