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Jan 1, 1000
Scythan archers using biological warfear
In 400BC Scythan archers mixed their arrows in a mixture of blood, snake venom and dung and left the mixture to gather bactiria for a week. This mean't that if some one was hit by an arrow but didn't die straight away, the gangrine and tetanus bacteiria would attack their their limbs which would fall off, then they would suffer a slow and painful death. This technice was recorded by Herodotus a Greek historian. -
Jan 1, 1100
Spartens droping infected bodies in wells
In 300BC Spartens infected wells with dead animals which spread disease. -
Jan 1, 1300
Siege of Kaffa
The Tartar force flung bodies infected with the plague in to the city of Kaffa hoping to cause an epidemic.
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The Black Death
Fleas, infected with the Bubonic Plague, jumped on to rats spreading the fleas to humas.You would start to feel ill ,then you would get some spots ,start to smell then die. Since their where alot of rats in Londen and the houses where close together it killed a third of the population before being wiped out by the Great Fire of London. Ther where alot of cures like placing shaved chicken bottoms on your spots and my favourite, not doing any physical or mental work and avoid vegetables ..cough -
French and Indian War
British forces killed lots of French by "aparantly out of frendship" giving them blankets infested with fleas containing the small pox virus. -
First Vaccination
A lady came to Edward Jenner whith a rash, Edward identifyed it as cow pox instead of small pox. One of the lady's cows had caught the diseasee earlier. He gave his gardener's son some of the contens of the lady's spots. The boy developed cowpox. However when he was then given the smallpox virus he didn't become ill whith the disease. -
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Tuburculosis out break in Europe and America
80% of the working population died and ther was signs every wher saying no spitting £250 fine and/or a year in prison to stop the spread of the disease. -
Tuberculosis
more infomation on time span -
Anthrax testing
During the second world war testing was done on Gruinard Island. Anthrax was dispersed by bombs. The infected area was measured by using harnessed sheep spaced at intervals across the island. As the anthrax spread the sheep died. The island was made safe in the late 20th Century -
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