MICROBE AS WAR WEAPON
DISCOUNTED BY EXPERTS PARIS, August 25. The possibility that germs of deadly diseases may be used in future wars has been discounted at the International Congress of Microbiology by Dr Madsen of Denmark, who is tho president of the League of Nations Public Health Committee. . Dr Madsen pointed out that in the first place it would be extremely difficult to scatter germs effectively among an enemy force, for tho microbes at present known to science were not sunn ciently virulent to be deadly if scattered by mechanical means. The most virulent of all were the bacilli of influenza and parrot disease, but even these could not be used as weapons during war. He concluded, therefore, that there was no need for any nation to devote itself to the study of means of protection against microbe attacks launched by an enemy. Such attacks would be impracticable, because they would inevitably do as much damage among the attackers as among the enemy, since in warfare the victor occupies the ground vacated by tho vanquished.
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Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 5
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176MICROBE AS WAR WEAPON Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 5
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