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Biological weapons aren’t something new by any means.
If you think about it, it’s the most basic way to fight against an opponent.
Go after what’s keeping them alive by attacking their life force!
Not just by poking and prodding, but by making sure something gets into their system that
will actively attack their organs, respiratory systems, all the things that actually keep
life going.
The ways we’ve done this have varied in the past, but you might be surprised to know
that it’s not actually that hard to do this today, as the agreement made between nations
in the 1925 protocol has no actual method for verifying compliance.
Let’s take a look at some of the atrocities people have tried in the past in this list
of the top 10 biological weapons used in history!
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10.
BC Biological weapons You don’t need a lab to create biological
weapons.
Back as far as 400 BC, warriors would create them right on the battlefield, dipping arrows
into decomposing bodies or in blood mixed with manure.
Other methods include placing dead animals in water sources and firing vessels full of
poisonous snakes into enemy ships, like in the Battle of Eurymedon - kind of like Snakes
on a Plane, but as a weapon and way back in 190 BC.
It’s not the same without Samuel L. Jackson, I’d assume, but we’d have to ask critics
of the oral tradition that allowed that story to survive.
9.
1155 Poisoning Humans With Humans Back in the 12th Century AD, Barbarossa used
bodies of dead and decomposing soldiers to poison wells.
He wasn’t the only one to do this, of course.
In the 14th Century, Tartar forces would throw the plagued corpses into the city to cause
epidemics within the city limits.
It happened again in 1710 when Russia catapulted bodies of people who had died from plague
at the Swedish forces in Estonia.
Can you imagine waiting for arrows, canons, whatever, and just getting bodies or pieces
of bodies thrown at you?
Chills!
8.
Body Catapulting In the Siege of Caffa Historians say that in 1343, it was the plague
that led to the Mongolians using bodies as weapons to catapult over to their enemies
in Caffa, which is now in modern Ukraine.
With war and plague going on at the same time, it only made sense to bring them together
in terrifying harmony.
According to a historical review, (suspense voice) "What seemed like mountains of dead
were thrown into the city, and the Christians could not hide or flee or escape from them,
although they dumped as many of the bodies as they could in the sea.
And soon the rotting corpses tainted the air and poisoned the water supply, and the stench
was so overwhelming that hardly one in several thousands were in a position to flee the remains
of the Tartar army.
Moreover, one infected man could carry the poison to others, and infect people and places
with the disease by look alone.
No one knew, or could discover, a means of defense.”
Would not want to trade places with the guys on the receiving end of that.
7.
Leper Wine anybody?
Poisoning the water source is one thing, but I mean, look at Flint, Michigan!
We’re not far from that today!
However, when you get into the wine supply, that is truly offensive.
In 1495, the Spanish took full advantage of the French enemies’ love of wine and they
sprinkled in subtle notes of blood from leprosy patients.
Not only did they serve it to their enemies, they actually made them pay for it!
Buying leper blood wine has to be one of the worst purchases of your life.
6.
Rabid Saliva Fast forward to 1650 and the Polish updated
the old bioweapon trick just a little bit more.
Instead of firing bodily fluids from their own soldiers at their enemies, they would
take saliva from rabid dogs and follow the same procedure.
That sure would make it hard to find hair of the dog that bit you when a) you weren’t
bit and b) you never even saw the dog.
It’s all bologna anyways, especially back in 1650.
Once infected with the Rabid saliva you’re pretty much a goner.
5.
Napoleon floods Italy to spread Malaria Again, water comes into play.
This time, we’re not putting dead bodies in the water so people get one drink and die.
This time, it’s 1797 and Napoleon is flooding the plains around Mantua, Italy.
Why?
It’s much more complex.
He got more sophisticated with his biological weapons.
He wanted to nurture the environment in which Malaria thrives to enhance the spread of the
disease.
That’s both smart and super evil!
4.
WWI German Bio-Weapons We’ve heard of Anthrax.
I feel like this is what most of us associate with biological warfare.
During WWI, Germans developed anthrax, glanders, cholera, and wheat fungus for this specific
purpose.
It’s said that they spread plague in St. Petersburg, infected mules in Mesopotamia
and tried to do the same with horses of the French Cavalry.
They were just trying it all over the place!
Luckily this didn’t result in a massive outbreak of any of these diseases, but man
they were really playing with fire.
3.
WWII Japanese Bio-weapons During the Second World War, it was Japan
that was operating bioweapon research in Manchuria.
They were done on prisoners, as we’ve seen time and time again on our scientific experiments
done on humans, and involved plague, anthrax, syphilis, and other agents.
You know, just to “see what would happen.”
Victims sometimes were even executed or died as a result of the infections.
After death, the research wasn’t over.
Autopsies were done to understand just how much they had affected those innocent people.
2.
Big Oops This accidental bioweapon attack was actually
the release of anthrax from a weapons facility in Sverdlovsk, USSR in 1979.
It killed at least 66 people which, had it been another country who had released the
agent, would definitely have been named a terrorist attack.
However, as happens with Russia, the government didn’t even admit it was them until 1992.
They said the people had died due to the ingestion of infected meat.
Until that is, President Boris Yeltsin came out saying that it had all just been a big
government “oops”.
1.
Viet Cong During the Vietnam War, Bioterrorism was definitely
not out of the scope of possibilities.
The Viet Cong guerrillas would use sharp punji sticks, sharp bamboo stakes hidden among tall
grass or in deep mud, and covered them in feces so that when they pierced soldiers,
they’d cause serious infection.
It seems so innocuous, just getting pricked by bamboo, but in reality, anything that pierces
the skin that allows harmful bacteria to enter your bloodstream could wipe you out very quickly.
Enemy soldiers of the Viet Cong certainly expected bullets and other warfare, but might
have been surprised to see they had some biological weapons up their sleeve.
Thanks for watching!
I’m off to clean out my fridge.
There’s some leftovers in there that I’m sure have turned hazardous!
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Just saying ...