... hurled infected bodies over the walls of Kaffa, a horrible type of warfare was introduced to the world: biological warfare. Today, biological warfare is a lot more serious and a lot more deadly. By definition, biological weapons designed to dispense airborne clouds of pathogenic microbes could in theory kill or incapacitate unprotected populations over very large areas. If a country were to use biological ... weapons it could cause the attacked country to use its own biological weapons and possibly even nuclear weapons starting a major war, killing millions of people. As of the year 200...

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... introduced African slaves to the Americas further diversifying the human races. They also took Native Americans back to Europe as curiosities and novelties. This human exchange was not without it's deadly consequences. Parasites and disease traveled with their human hosts and wreaked havoc. The Europeans introduced the Native Americans to measles, smallpox, and influenza, killing thousands. The Europeans also carried home ... the Native American disease, syphilis, contracted in sexual encounters with Native women. The cross introduction of goods, like weapons, musical instruments and je...

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... doses of vaccinations are on hand because the smallpox virus was eradicated in 1977 and is no longer considered a threat. Dr. D. A. Henderson is widely credited with the eradication of this deadly virus as he headed the World Health Organization's (WHO) Smallpox Eradication Unit from 1966 until 1977, just before Rahima Banu came down with the last documented case of Variola major ... that the virus lives unofficially in biological warfare labs throughout the world and that many other nations are trying to acquire the virus for their own research and development of weapons. The abuse of ...

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