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biowarfare

. This horrid use of warfare uses disease to cause terrible pain and suffering, and to kill humans, military personnel, plants, and livestock. The techniques to develop biological weapons are unethical and repulsive; therefore the use of biological agents to eliminate a certain group is offensive and should not be permitted.
One of the earliest biological attacks took place in 1346 in the Black Sea port of Kaffa. Rats and their fleas carried the disease to the Tatar soldiers. In spitefulness, the Tatars threw gave the Indians small pox infested blankets from a hospital to keep warm during the cold nights. By using these blankets, the biological agent small pox went through the Indian community and killed a lot of Native Americans. Then in 1932 the Japanese began doing experiments on the Chinese outside of Manchuria. Eleven Chinese cities were contaminated with the biological agents of anthrax, cholera, shigellosis, salmonella, and the plague. During these attacks, ten thousand C...

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