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American Revolution
British left the city in March of 1776, Washington sent in a force of 1,000 smallpox-immune American troops to occupy Boston in order to avoid further spread of the disease. Smallpox continued to plague the Continental Army as well as the civilian population. Epidemics broke out in both Boston and Philadelphia in the summer of 1776, and the retreat of an American force sent to take Quebec was blamed on a number of factors including the high prevalence of smallpox amongst soldiers. -
World War II
The Japanese attacked the Chinese during World War II by testing diseases on them. They killed 10,000 Chinese. -
Soviet "Superbugs"
Bacteriophages, which attack bacteria but leave human cells unscathed, are still used in Russia, Georgia and Poland, but fell by the wayside in the West with the mass production of penicillin, the first antibiotic, in the 1940s. -
Medieval siege
in the 14th and 15th centuries, little was known about how germans cause disease. 1340- attackers hurled dead horses and other animals by catapult at the castle of the thun L'Eveque in what is now the northern france. 1422- at karlstein in bohemia attacking forces launched the decaying cadavers of men killed in a battle over the castle walls. -
Iraq's bioweapons
Iraq launched a bioweapon program around 1985 but initially lacked the expertise to develop sophisticated arms. in 1991 iraq had weaponized anthrax, botulinum toxin, and aflatoxin, and had several other lethal agents in development. -
World War 1
Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two Democratic U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. According to the FBI, the ensuing investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement
