11-01-2005, 08:38 AM
The spreading of diseases previously not existent in the americas was a natural thing of course. The same is if I have a cold and I infect my neighbour with it.....that is no biological warfare....if you however do it on purpose (blankets or corpses) that is indeed biological warfare. In the same way you can call "using poison arrows" chemical warfare.
I can recommend a very interesting book I'm reading at the moment, it is a novel and fiction, but written as if it was describing real historical facts (maybe it is, but I'm just not aware of those facts). Anyway without giving too much away it is also about the plagues spreading in certain parts of europe in the 1600. I don't have the ISBN number with me now, but it is called "imprimatur" and it is written by the duo Monaldi en Sorti. (Italians but there should be a englisch translation).
I can recommend a very interesting book I'm reading at the moment, it is a novel and fiction, but written as if it was describing real historical facts (maybe it is, but I'm just not aware of those facts). Anyway without giving too much away it is also about the plagues spreading in certain parts of europe in the 1600. I don't have the ISBN number with me now, but it is called "imprimatur" and it is written by the duo Monaldi en Sorti. (Italians but there should be a englisch translation).