A May 1952 poster, designed by the PRC's Propaganda Department of the Central Ministry of Health & the All-China Artists Association, illustrates efforts undertaken to respond to US bioweapons attack
Cuba faced similar attacks, though the most notable were economic attacks with insects and pathogens against their agriculture which destroyed most of their poultry and swine farming along with severely limiting tobacco and sugar exports for foreign exchange. The several attempts at inflicting human casualties with pathogens such as hemorrhagic fever viruses were less successful but still effective enough to be noted- One of the reasons Cuba has felt the need to train a LOT more medical people than other economies in their climactic zone/of their size.
Thank you for the comment and the links! I've long thought of researching more and writing about the Cuban experience with U.S. biological warfare. I've held off as my hands are full with the Korean War material, but perhaps I can do something more about Cuba soon.
It gets worse. There is good evidence that our CBW establishment has lost containment SEVERAL times over the years and on US territory too, not just at subcontracting labs on foreign soil. And not just with relatively limited materials like nerve gas (scragging a few Pennsylvanian sheep), also with disease organisms and vectors favoring humans, LONG before the much theorized virus du jour.
More later, I want to go be happy for a few days. Have a good one-
Cuba faced similar attacks, though the most notable were economic attacks with insects and pathogens against their agriculture which destroyed most of their poultry and swine farming along with severely limiting tobacco and sugar exports for foreign exchange. The several attempts at inflicting human casualties with pathogens such as hemorrhagic fever viruses were less successful but still effective enough to be noted- One of the reasons Cuba has felt the need to train a LOT more medical people than other economies in their climactic zone/of their size.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/19626-national-security-archive-doc-15-nsc-memorandum
http://www.cubanews.acn.cu/cuba/21493-germ-warfare-a-long-standing-war-against-cuba
Thank you for the comment and the links! I've long thought of researching more and writing about the Cuban experience with U.S. biological warfare. I've held off as my hands are full with the Korean War material, but perhaps I can do something more about Cuba soon.
@Jeffrey S. Kaye
It gets worse. There is good evidence that our CBW establishment has lost containment SEVERAL times over the years and on US territory too, not just at subcontracting labs on foreign soil. And not just with relatively limited materials like nerve gas (scragging a few Pennsylvanian sheep), also with disease organisms and vectors favoring humans, LONG before the much theorized virus du jour.
More later, I want to go be happy for a few days. Have a good one-