What is bacterial warfare?

Question

What is bacterial warfare?

Answer 1

they usually make a strain of dna that is drug resistant so that it is harder to treat it.

Answer 2

Bacterial warfare is the usage of bacteria or bacterial toxin as a weapon. So the big thing here is what is bacteria? Bacterias are unicellular organism (Single-celled) that are found everywhere on the planet, from inside the human body to radioactive wastes, they are larger than viruses and is also a living organism unlike viruses and that is because bacterias can reproduce on its own while viruses cannot (Viruses reproduce when inside a host). Bacterias can be positive or negative on humans. The human stomach and intestines contains millions of bacteria that help absorb nutrients and break down food. Bacterias are also used sometime to kill off other negative bacterias for the benefits of human. However, some bacteria can cause damage to the human body when inside. Often negative bacteria can have a parasitic association with organisms, when so, the bacteria is called a pathogen.

Pathogens are a main cause of human death. One of is Bubonic Plague, a pathogenic disease where the victim experiences progressive swollen areas called Buboes that are found in neck, armpits and groin areas. The victim experiences not only painful swelling of Buboes but also continuous blood vomiting, aching pains and when infected, they have less than 24 hours to live. This was and is know widely as the Black Death. Anyways, bacterial warfare now is developed by altering the genes of the bacteria so they reproduce with much greater speed that when released on enemies, death can result in short time. Though bacterial warfare is effective, the consequences are catastrophic, not only innocent people can be infected, the cure is also very difficult to produce because the bacterial genes can change very fast and immunity to the cure can develop in short time as well.  

Answer 3

Bacterial warfare is infecting the army/population of one's country with a bacterial sickness, like E. Coli or Cholera.

Answer 4

Biological warfare is the intentional and malicious deployment of a developed strain of bacteria or virus which would have harmful effect on the population upon which it is unleashed.

Answer 5

Bacterial warfare is when one side uses bacteria to make their enemy sick, and probably die. An example of this would be the Anthrax incident a little while after 9/11.... a lot of people found 'white powder' in their mail which turned out to contain anthrax that made them ill. This is bacterial (or biological, however you prefer to call it) warfare that the terrorists were using against Americans.

If I am correct, the Geneva Conference frowns upon it rather heavily.