One of the Earliest Usages of Biological Warfare During Conflict and the Reason Biological Warfare Was Utilized as a Strategy During the Middle Ages

Considered one of the earliest recorded acts of biological warfare, during the Middle Ages victims of the Black Death were catapulted over city walls and left to decompose within enemy fortifications (eg. Mongol Siege of Caffa military invasion of 1346 etc.). This strategy aimed to spread the plague among the besieged population by exposing them to infected corpses, which weaponized disease as a psychological and biological form of warfare directly intended to weaken morale, contaminate living s...


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