How terrorists tried to turn disease into a weapon

25 years ago – on September 18, 2001 – a week after the series of terrorist attacks in the United States, letters containing anthrax spores were sent to the offices of several members of Congress and editorial offices.

Twenty-two people were infected, five of whom died.

▶️This was far from the first time that diseases were used in an attempt to turn them into weapons.

Back in the 14th century, the Golden Horde khan Jani Beg, while besieging the Genoese colony of Caffa (Feodosia), began using catapults to hurl the bodies of warriors who had died of the plague over the city walls, hoping that the fortress would surrender.

➡️ Cases of the most notorious bioterrorist attacks in history – in the article by Vedomosti

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