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Biological Weapons and Today’s World Are we Safe?
Science has benefited mankind to a great extent since its origin. Without scientific discoveries and theories life we seek to spend today wouldn’t have been possible. Biology of living things is a basic necessity for understanding the possibility of life and the way all the processes are going on in living beings which make them able to go on. Biological studies where aided the mankind in scientific breakthroughs for providing benefits, on the other hand, it also started be used in a negative way. Like every rope has two ends, similarly, everything in this world has two sides, the beneficial one, and the harmful one. Biological
weapons are one such example of the harmful aspects of the biological sciences. Biological weapons refer to the living harmful entities like viruses, bacteria, fungi etc. These entities may produce toxins or may cause biological process disruption by blocking vital organs resulting in the death of the host. First ever Biological weapon started to be used in 400 BC where people during battle used to dip the arrow heads in the blood of the animal carcass and often blood was mixed with other decomposing materials, such arrows used to kill enemies within a matter of hours after painful sufferings. The trend of Biological warfare then spread around the world. With the passage of time trend caught more heat and human beings started to devastate each
other using unnoticeable warfare agents. Soldiers and common citizens who suffered from an infectious disease were utilized as weapon for the invading enemy. Commonly plague and smallpox were the mostly used sources of bringing down the enemies in medieval times. Today in Pakistan many common fatal diseases, originate from where no one can answer that. Anthrax is a bacterial disease that kills domestic animals like cattle, goats, sheep, etc. This disease remains undetected and one of the major symptoms of that disease is the sudden death of the animals. Such animals are buried immediately for avoiding the spread of bacteria to humans, but once caught by humans, the result is death only, as it remains undetected.
Bacillus
anthracis
is
the
bacterium
responsible for this disease and it is common in Baluchistan province. This anthrax is an ancient and by far the most common Biological weapon to weaken the enemy from within. It has been used in World War I and II and it is still the common weapon.
Biological weapons are nowadays being commonly used in wars mostly by economically stable countries. Many new diseases fatal for mankind keep on originating from where? Now I think you can figure it out for yourselves. All those diseases, not only the human diseases but also plant and animal diseases the end result of which is only death, ties their links to the products of labs. Why you
think when new epidemic outbreaks in any country, only some international companies come up with a cure for that epidemic, but whom would you benefit by using those long-term medications if the end result is only the death? AIDS, Hepatitis, Anthrax, Dengue etc. one may see them as the natural diseases but why these diseases didn’t originate before? They might have been developed in some unknown labs, you may never know. It all now depends on how you see this world around you. It’s you now who have to decide that whether to expose such acts or to bury them.