It's Worse Than You Think

[Malcolm Pryce]

Germ warfare, it seems, had its birth right here in the good ole USA.

Gezundheit, Cochise.

I beg to differ. The concept was already ancient long before the Europeans turned up in North America:


In 1347, the Genoese possession of Caffa, a great trade emporium on the Crimean peninsula, came under siege by an army of Mongol warriors of the Golden Horde under the command of Janibeg. After a protracted siege during which the Mongol army was reportedly withering from the disease, they decided to use the infected corpses as a biological weapon. The corpses were catapulted over the city walls, infecting the inhabitants. The Genoese traders fled, transferring the plague (Black Death) via their ships into the south of Europe, whence it rapidly spread.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_(disease)