ETX 10 Lecture 18: Biological Warfare Agents
27 Nov 2017
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Introduction: tetanus - released bacteria that wards off tetanus (cid:840)tetanus toxin(cid:841, deteria i. i. Caused by protein released by bacteria in body. Introduction and motives of terrorism: to influence thoughts or actions, common targets: humans, commerce, animals, crops, physical materials, )hy use warfare agents i. Easy to produce : history of biological warfare, anthrax found in soil, anthrax put in envelope and mailed. Fear and panic iii. ii: 500 bc, assyrians used fungi to poison enemy wells b. 184 bc, a naval battle between carthage, led by hannibal, and king eumenes of. Easy to cause fear and panic: middle ages and the black death. Onto opposing ships: cadavers of bubonic plague victims have been hurled . Causes people to scatter i: smallpox and the new world, the most recent event of corpse hurling was in 1710, when the russians hurled corpses into tallinn during their war with sweden i. i. a.
