History of biological warfare | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-14

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00:01:13 1 Antiquity
00:03:13 2 Middle Ages
00:05:44 3 17th and 18th century
00:05:55 3.1 Europe
00:06:29 3.2 North America
00:09:38 3.3 New South Wales
00:14:15 4 20th century
00:15:08 4.1 First World War
00:17:15 4.2 Interwar period and WWII
00:23:58 4.3 Postwar period
00:31:20 4.4 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
00:36:26 5 21st century
00:37:56 6 List of historical Biological Weapons programs by country
00:38:45 7 See also



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Various types of biological warfare (BW) have been practiced repeatedly throughout history. This has included the use of biological agents (microbes and plants) as well as the biotoxins, including venoms, derived from them.
Before the 20th century, the use of biological agents took three major forms:

Deliberate contamination of food and water with poisonous or contagious material
Use of microbes, biological toxins, animals, or plants (living or dead) in a weapon system
Use of biologically inoculated fabrics and personsIn the 20th century, sophisticated bacteriological and virological techniques allowed the production of significant stockpiles of weaponized bio-agents:

Bacterial agents: Anthrax, Brucella, Tularemia, etc.
Viral agents: Smallpox, Viral hemorrhagic fevers, etc.
Toxins: Botulinum, Ricin, etc.