What is biological warfare?

Biological warfare is a unique form of combat, in which weapons are used for different types that contain viruses or bacteria that can cause massive damage on military and surrounding populations.

What are Biological Weapons?
Biological weapons are militarily adapted organisms to cause disease in humans, animals or plants. Facts tend to be agents of highly contagious organisms, their producers have the ability that these germs can be replicated and achieve a potentially devastating impact on the chosen target.

How are germs and how they send?
There is a wide range of techniques and agents that can be used in biological warfare.
The diseases can be introduced into the enemy may include Anthrax, forms of plague, yellow fever, botulism and smallpox. A biological agent can come in different forms, which include bacteria, fungi, viruses or toxins.
The agents used in biological warfare can spread through air or water and there are different techniques to send them. A bomb or missile may release a cloud charged with the germ, which would be moved by the wind. Biological agents can also be used to contaminate food or water supplies of the enemy.

Which countries have these weapons?
U.S., Russia, China, Japan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iran, Israel, North Korea and Taiwan. Known or suspected that all these countries have the capacity to advance biological warfare.

Are they a threat?
While there, biological weapons are a potential threat, according to analysts, the immediate dangers of a possible biological warfare would come from Iraq and the remnants of the vast biological weapons program of the former Soviet Union.
In the U.S., the threat of a terrorist attack using biological weapons is taken very seriously. The so-called "rogue states" (states that are considered "criminal" "yokels" or simply "misguided"), as Libya, Iraq and North Korea are seen as major sources of threat.