Accusations that epidemics or pandemics are "biological warfare" are not new. Humans rightly have an innate fear of disease. "This plague is a deliberate attack" is a trope that is thousands of ...

Q: Would a chemical or biological attack be more deadly? A: If cultured well, a biological weapon would have a more devastating impact since people infected with some biological agents can spread ...

Burgdorfer himself was involved in biological warfare programs that involved using blood-sucking insects, including fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes, as vectors for the transmission of human diseases.

William C. Patrick III, 84, one of the chief scientists at the Army Biological Warfare Laboratories at Fort Detrick and who was responsible for overseeing the military's top-secret weaponization ...

The novel coronavirus is not an ideal biological warfare agent, experts say, because its impact on the United States and adversaries alike cannot be controlled. But China refuses to help the world ...

Smallpox, a disease caused by variola virus, is considered one of the biggest killers in terms of diseases in human history. Its eradication culminated a decade-long World Health Organization ...

The March 28 Style article “Can insects truly be weapons, as on ‘The Americans’?” was mistaken in virtually every statement it made regarding biological weapons. Cuba was definitely a ...

Archaeologists were recently able to confirm an 800-year-old tale of medieval biological warfare. The Norwegian historical chronicle Sverris saga tells the story of an attack that involved a ...

Early Biological Warfare. Archaeologists in Norway have confirmed that an ancient set of human remains known as the Well Man were intended to make the locals unwell.

Military officials were called to testify before Congress in 1977 after information about these biological warfare experiments was revealed.

Q: Would a chemical or biological attack be more deadly? A: If cultured well, a biological weapon would have a more devastating impact since people infected with a biological agent can spread the ...