Describe some early forms of human biowarfare:
Catapulting corpses of plague victims into besieged cities, dipping
arrows in dead things...
Mention four major infectious diseases that the Spanish brought to the
Americas
Smallpox, measles, Influenza, typhus, malaria
What was the Columbian ...
✓ : A strongly addictive drug produced from the milky sap of the poppy
flower seed pod
Give an example of a current Opium War.
✓ Afghanistan or Mexico producing opium for export
Name two important disease that were brought to the America with the slave
trade
✓ Falciparum Malaria and Yellow fever.
How did freed Haitian rebels weaponize mosquitoes against French troops?
✓ They let new arrivals camp in low-lying swamps for several weeks,
before attacking them once they got malaria or yellow fever.
What is the Geneva Protocol of 1925?
✓ An international agreement banning the use of chemical and
bacteriological weapons.
Which country tested and utilized bioweapons during world war II?
✓ Imperial Japan
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