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Germs Against Man: Bioterror: a brief history.
When, in 1980, the World Health Organization announced the eradication of smallpox as a disease, the plot of a thriller came to me in an instant.
It was set a few years later, when mankind's herd immunity to smallpox had declined and much of the population had never been immunized against the disease. A highly intelligent Muslim fanatic, disguising his true beliefs, trains as a virologist, and gains entry into one of the two laboratories in the world still to hold stocks of the smallpox virus. He steals the virus with the intention of converting the world to Islam by the threat of starting an epidemic, his organization having destroyed simultaneously the small ...
- Biological warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa. (Historical Review).
- Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases Wheelis, Mark September 1, 2002 700+ words
...Mussi, the Black Death is widely...result of a biological warfare attack...accounts of the Black Death, and secondary...claim that biological warfare was used...incident of biological warfare ever, with the Black Death as its disastrous...
- Biological Warfare
- Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science January 1, 2002 700+ words
Biological warfare Biological warfare (previously called germ warfare...resulted in the spread of the Black Death throughout Europe, killing millions...resulted from an accident at a biological warfare facility. Biological warfare...
- Biological warfare and bioterrorism: a historical review.
- Magazine article from: Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings Riedel, Stefan October 1, 2004 700+ words
...the concepts of biological warfare and its states of...nation. EARLY USE OF BIOLOGICAL WARFARE Infectious diseases...also known as the Black Death, swept through...the account of a biological warfare attack in Caffa...
- Time trip.(biological warfare)
- Magazine article from: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication January 10, 2003 700+ words
* Biological warfare has a long and nasty...the population. The Black Death, as it later came to...exception of New Orleans. * Black Death (1347-1352) This...mid 14th century. The Black Death caused spots of blood...
- Britain's bacteria.(Britain and Biological Warfare: Expert Advice and Science...
- Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Moore, Richard July 1, 2002 700+ words
Britain and Biological Warfare: Expert Advice and Science...75.00 IN BRITAIN AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE, Brian Balmer, a lecturer...Balmer traces the ideas of biological warfare from the 1930s, when the main...
- Biological warfare
- Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science January 1, 2008 700+ words
Biological warfare Biological warfare, as defined by the United Nations, is the use of any...humans, animals, or plants. In contrast to bioterrorism, biological warfare is defined as the “ state-sanctioned ”...
- Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare 1932-45 and the American Cover...
- Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Freeman, Karen January 1, 1995 700+ words
Stories about Japan's biological warfare experiments before and during...primary unit involved in biological warfare work, is also contained...The Japanese began their biological warfare program in the 1930s in Manchuria...
- Biological warfare research under fire.
- Magazine article from: Science News February 28, 1987 700+ words
Biological warfare research under fire The Department...DOD) andits growing efforts in biological-warfare research may have hit a snag...agreed to submit its collection of biological warfare research programs to far-reaching...
