Question

Look for an academic scientific research article on viruses that can be used as a biological weapon.

Summarize the article in your own words and include: objective, method, result, and conclusion (four sentences). Submit the complete reference (APA style).

Answer 1

Objective: Viruses that can be used as biological weapons in living and modified biological agents to cause disease as well as destroy a mass population. Attempts of using virus as biological warfare agent date back to antiquity.

Though numerous viruses can be weaponised yet the horror and misery caused by small pox or haemorrhagic fever.

Method: Ancient tactics of using bio-weapon included the contamination of water with animal carcasses, human dead body and poisons. History says that usage of the serpent toxins (earthen vessels of venomous snake) in the naval battle of the Eurymedon at 184BC. Another notorious early biological warfare method was the hurling of cadavers over the wall of enemy as a terror tactic.

During war time soldiers were allowed to take rest in an area which is endemic of some particular infection, in that time many soldiers were died of infectious diseases.

Several history says during a war forces gave blankets and handkerchiefs from the small pox hospitals to enemy soldiers and spread the contagious diseases.

Result: Virus as a bioweapon Biological warfare using biological toxin or infectious agent such as bacteria, virus or fungi to incapacitate or destroy enemy as an act of war.

Biological weapons which is often termed bio-weapons or bio-agents are toxic materials produced from pathogenic organisms, living microorganisms itself or genetically engineered microorganisms used to intentionally interfere with the biological process of a host. It has the potentiality to create a level of mass destruction which is far in excess than any conventional weapon.

Conclusion:

-Few countries are involved in developing bio-weapon in spite of being aware of its inherent danger and complexities of its production.

-If the development process of weapon itself causes more injury and death to one’s own people than to opposition, it is more dangerous.

-Today our society have enormous resources and have pro advanced genetic engineering technology. But to prove it people are killing each other in a new way every time.

-The threat of bio-attack is now a reality, Many blame that COVID-19 is Chinese bio-attack but we can't conclude that without having a solid evidences.