Word: botulinus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Zacharias, now has atom bombs 50 times more powerful than those that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But there are other weapons in the new alphabet of destruction: 1) bacteriological bombs containing either botulinus toxin or psittacosis virus; 2) a U.S. -developed biological spray that "can wipe out all forms of life in a large city"; 3) some sort of military application of cosmic rays which is now, he thought, being developed by Russian scientists...
Handy Package. Much more suitable for warfare,, the bacteriologists think, are the bacteria of various relatively obscure diseases: botulism, Weil's disease, anthrax, pneumonic plague. Botulinus toxin, for example, is by far the most potent of gastrointestinal poisons: it kills, within a few days, 60 to 70% of the people it infects. Rosebury & Kabat think that by aerial dissemination to enemy water supplies, whole populations could be infected before protective measures could be taken...