When did the agencies first embark on bioweapons programs for domestic use?
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“When did the agencies first embark on bioweapons programs for domestic use?”
You might be surprised. One of the first recorded uses of biological warfare occurred in 1347, when Mongol forces are reported to have catapulted plague-infested bodies over the walls into the Black Sea port of Caffa (now Feodosiya, Ukraine), at that time a Genoese trade center in the Crimean Peninsula. So the use of bio weapons is not new. And of course being a major port, it’s the gift that keeps on giving as Bubonic plague is transmitted through the bite of an infected flea or exposure to infected material through a break in the skin. Symptoms include swollen, tender lymph glands called buboes. Buboes are not present in pneumonic plague. They didn’t know this in the mid 1300’s so it traveled out of the port on ships and was later dropped in unsuspecting ports and caused outbreaks. About 25 million people are estimated to have died in Europe from the plague between 1347 and 1351. Then those that were going to die, did, and the stronger lived thus inventing the idea of herd immunity.
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