Teisha,+Jacana,+Siobhan+-+Biological+Weapons

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=__//** biological weapons **//__=

//**__How is it used?__**//
Biological weapons can be used from bombs, aerosol cans, air, soil and water.

=// What happens after the attacks? //=

There are no vaccine's for a biological weapon attacks. Even if a person survives an attack, if they have some of the chemical in there system and they have kids, the effects from the weapon can harm the children.



= **Effects** =

Biological agents have either living organisms or their products, such as toxins, which cause disease or death. Living organisms can multiply within people to make their effects, while toxins cannot reproduce themselves. Toxins are usually more dangerous, and act very quickly mostly causing death within minutes or hours. Living organisms (microbial pathogens), need development periods of 24 hours to 6 weeks between infection and appearance of symptoms. This development period places limits on their battlefield helpfulness, but means that biological weapons can continue to have a significant impact many weeks after the initial attack. Also, this delayed development period may mean that a biological attack can be completed before those on the ground have realised that it has occurred, when that happens the effects can be confused with a natural outbreak of disease.



= AGENT ORANGE =
 * Agent Orange is the name of a specific blend of herbicides used during the Vietnam era.
 * The military sprayed millions of gallons on trees and vegetation that provided cover for the enemy.
 * the use of agent orange began in 1962 when President John F. Kennedy and Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara decided that it was the right thing to do the aim was to destroy crops and remove forests so the Viet Cong had no food supply’s or hide outs for the Vietnamese

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