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Posted on 12/26/2003 1:34:47 PM PST by Angelus Errare
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Oh, heaven's no! Anthrax has been weaponized by a number of countries since the First World War, when it was used by the Germans on deer that they herded into our troops. Louis Pastuer, however, had invented the first anthrax vaccination back in 1850, however, and since the French were on our side back then anthrax was hardly a problem.
Today, no fewer than Libya, Syria, and North Korea have weaponized anthrax, along with a host of other potentials (states/bio-agents).
A number of countries have conducted bioweapons research on anti-livestock or anti-crop pathogens. Countries with documented programs are outlined in the table below.
Documented Agricultural Bioweapons Programs |
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Country* |
Dates of Program |
Diseases Studied |
Canada |
1940s-1960s |
Anthrax, rinderpest |
France |
1939-1972 |
Potato beetle, rinderpest |
Former Soviet Union |
1935-1992 (current status unclear) |
African swine fever, anthrax, avian influenza, brown grass mosaic, brucellosis, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, contagious ecthyma (sheep), foot-and-mouth disease, glanders, maize rust, Newcastle disease, potato virus, psittacosis, rinderpest, rice blast, rye blast, tobacco mosaic, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, vesicular stomatitis, wheat stem rust, wheat and barley mosaic streak viruses |
Germany |
1915-1917, 1942-1945 |
Anthrax, foot-and-mouth disease, glanders, potato beetle, wheat fungus |
Iraq |
1980s-present (current status unclear) |
Aflatoxin, anthrax, camelpox, foot-and-mouth disease, wheat stem rust, wheat smut |
Japan |
1937-1945 |
Anthrax, glanders |
South Africa |
1980s-1993 |
Anthrax |
United Kingdom |
1937-1960s |
Anthrax |
United States |
1943-1969 |
Anthrax, brucellosis, Eastern and Western equine encephalitis, foot-and-mouth disease, glanders, late blight of potato, Newcastle disease, psittacosis, rice blast, rice brown spot disease, rinderpest, Venezuelan equine encephalitis, wheat blast fungus, wheat stem rust |
Several countries other than those noted in the table above are suspected of having agricultural bioweapons programs, although the status of these programs is unknown (see References: Monterey Institute of International Studies: Agricultural biowarfare). They include:
Can you not read plain English?
Post #25 CLEARLY shows that North Korea and Syria have anthrax weapons programs, yet *your* statement was that only Iraq had it.
Just precisely *HOW* does your claim still stand?
Not just yet.
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