BIOLOGICAL WARFARE Definition & Meaning

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biological warfare

noun

warfare that makes use of bacteria, viruses, toxins, etc., to disable or destroy people, domestic animals, and food crops. : B.W.

biological warfare

noun

the use of living organisms or their toxic products to induce death or incapacity in humans and animals and damage to plant crops, etc BW

biological warfare

The use of biological agents as weapons in warfare. Also called germ warfare .

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of biological warfare¹

First recorded in 1945–50

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The substance was sent to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down to be examined by an expert in chemical and biological warfare agents.

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Tests at Porton Down, the government's biological warfare laboratory, confirmed the substance was ricin, a poison for which there is no antidote.

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Tests at Porton Down, the government's biological warfare laboratory, confirmed the substance was ricin, a poison for which there is no cure.

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China’s biological warfare work is conducted within civilian research institutes, frustrating efforts by intelligence agencies to gather detailed information on the threat.

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Seiichi Morimura, who wrote a searing exposé of the Japanese Army’s secret biological warfare program in occupied China, describing how it forcibly infected thousands of prisoners with deadly pathogens, died on July 24 in Tokyo.

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