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300
Scythian Archers, poison and enemies = Biological Warfare
in the 4th Century BC, Scythian archers used arrows dipped in animal faeces(poo), blood and rotting snakes to create a toxin that, when inside a human being, had a high chance of causing a disease to consume the victim. Ouch... [exact date unknown] -
404
Naughty Naughty, spartans
404BC- It is a good thing that the Geneva Covention didn't exist back in the days of the Spartans, because they dropped bodies down wells to poison the water supplies. by today's rules that's a war crime!!! -
Period: 426 to 430
Lucky day, Spartans...
Athens had an outbreak of measles. Sadly for them, this just happened to occur slap bang in the middle of the Peloponnesian war. Measles- 1 Greeks- 0 [dates 430BC to 426BC] -
Oct 10, 1000
First Biological Warfare
Smallpox spread across Philistines from 1320BC to 1000BC. Major fatalities [exact dates unknown] -
Oct 10, 1000
First recorded Vaccines
1000AD- Supposedly, the son of a statesman in China was innoculated against smallpox by blowing the powder from smallpox scabs into his nostrils. I know, that's fairly strange and creepy but it's better than meeting the Reaper thanks to full blown smallpox... [dates unknown] -
Louis Pasteur: Breaking The Cycle
Louis Pasteur -
Anthrax and the MOD
Gruinard Island1942. During World War Two, the MOD conducted an experiment. their question- could Anthrax survive being loaded into a warhead and fired at the enemy? The answer- Yes. Problem was, the island was no longer safe after the experiment. Because the island was too infected, the people sent to clean it had to wear NBC style suits like the ones in the picure. pretty stupid looking, though it could save your life... -
Letters from Death
Anthrax attacks of 2001If 9/11 wasn't bad enough, this was. In 2001, people were sent letters containing Anthrax. The letters, which appear to have been sent by some kind of Iraqui terrorist organisation (possibly even the infamous Al-Quaed, responsible for the 9/11 bombings earlier that month(though some of the letters didn't get opened till october)). Subsequently, 5 people were killed and a further 17 infected. One of the suspected snders was Bruce Edwards Ivins, but he
