History of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism
...During an infamous biowarfare attack in 1941, the Japanese Military released an estimated 150 million plague-infected fleas from airplanes over villages in China and Manchuria, resulting in several plague outbreaks in those villages.
If true, jeepers, they're hardy little beggars....
Thanks. I’m amazed Reuters didn’t try to blame it on the US during Vietnam or Iraq.
The rat flea is extremely durable. They can live quite a while without a blood meal. I know of one case in the US where a friend’s baby contracted plague from fleas in the carpet of a house that had been vacant 4 months. Unfortunately she didn’t survive.