Biological Warfare is the use of disease-producing microorganisms, toxic biological products, or organic biocides to cause death or injury to humans, animals, or plants. This method of murder has been used for centuries and it continues to reek havoc among our world. Scientists take a bacteria or an organsim and transform it to make some sort of deadly virus or disease to spread and kill.  It is a weapon that spreads sicknesses like smallpox, salmonella, cholera, etc.

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This form of mass destruction has been around for centuries.  From poisoning their enemies wells to throwing dead bodies infected with plague, biowarfare has murdered many with its horrific diseases and epidemics.

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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

 
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