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.