SOMEthing
to THINK about
by
Jian, tcm, SiTU
One
of the first registered acts of the use of biological warfare took
place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the year 1763.
The
Enlish colonial forces were in constant conflict with the local
Indian tribes. During one of these clashes the English offered the
Indian warriors some blankets and a handkerchief, as a token of
peace.
These
textiles came from the small-pox hospital nearby.
British
documents reveal, that the soldiers hoped that this strategy would
work.
It
did. Epidemic waves of small-pox swept across North-America,
decimating the aboriginal Indians.
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