Biological warfare and pandemic
This coronavirus has been shown how effective weapons viruses are, and when we are thinking about the pandemics or local epidemics, we must realize that for the biological warfare is in normal scenarios used the micro-organisms, what are "strengthen" against medicals. Normally those micro-organisms can be bacteria, which are easier to control by using strong antibiotics. In the cases of bacteria, the antibiotics would have an effect to protect own troops and civil personnel against those weaponized bacteria.
When we are thinking about the history of warfare the biological weapons are as old as the human race. In history, the bodies from the battlefield have been throw to the enemy territories, and the rats are released to the cities to make people's life difficult. Also, people who were infected with plague(1) or cholera (2) have been led to hostile areas. There is a vaccine and also antibiotics against cholera and the death rates are between 5-50%, and there were 28 000 deaths in 2015 in this disease. The thing is that if antibiotics would not affect, that thing causes dangerous situations. This kind of thing is a good example of people able to invent new ways to destroy others.
Syphilis was one of the best ways to calumniate the political resistance of some leaders. The reason is that when syphilis bacteria in the late-syphilis infect the human brains and cause neural damages(3).
One popular thing was to send the prostitutes who had syphilis to the enemy's bedroom or inject that bacteria to the blood of political prisoners. The thing, that made that kind of idea effective in the hands of the political police was that syphilis causes mental illness, and that thing decreased the trust for the testimonies. Also, people think that syphilis is the sexually transmitted disease that caused that it was a good tool for calumniate the political enemies of the state.
The thing that makes biological warfare so scary is that there is no way to prove that some infections or epidemics are caused in purpose. The cholera is so deadly that even in modern days antibiotics must be given immediately. And if the antibiotics would not affect the bacteria also normal bacteria cause death.
But when we are facing micro-organisms, what are resistant to medicine, we cannot say is that thing made in purpose. The natural bacteria is a very good tool in the hands of the attacker, because of that thing that the genomes of the bacteria have been modified is hard to prove.
When we are talking about things like spiked organisms, we are normally mean organisms that are predisposed to the small doses of antibiotics. This kind of thing happens all the time, and the problem is proving that the manipulation has been made in purpose is very difficult.
That thing causes the bacteria cultures are creating resistance against those micro-organisms. This kind of thing is extremely dangerous, but the thing, that makes biological weapons addictive is that they are cheap and quite easy for the produce large numbers. Only one cell can put on the nutrient base, and then it can be used to create the new weapon, which can be released to the water system or spray over people by using the same aircraft, which is used in agriculture.
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