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These germ warfare programs raised fears that a rogue country or terrorist cell could start an epidemic that would kill millions of people.
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Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
World Mosquito Program View 1 Images In a completely different kind of germ warfare, researchers have tested out a way to drop mosquitoes infected with disease-fighting bacteria over populations prone to outbreaks of dengue fever.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2024
Imperial Japan killed as many as 30 million civilians in East Asia, while subjecting many thousands to torturous medical experiments and germ warfare.
—Eric Levitz, Vox, 3 June 2024
There was sufficient evidence from eyewitnesses and accomplices to lend credibility to charges of germ warfare.
—TIME, 4 May 2024
Claims included wild stories about secret U.S. germ warfare labs or Nazi conspiracies or that Ukrainian refugees were committing crimes and taking jobs from people who had welcomed them.
—David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
The country had been on the receiving end of germ warfare, on the part of the Imperial Japanese Army’s biowarfare Unit 731 during World War II.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
Emergent BioSolutions, which Mr. El-Hibri took public in 2006, bought up competitors in order to sell treatments for smallpox, botulism and other potential agents of germ warfare, becoming a prime federal contractor for biodefense vaccines and treatments.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2022
The germ warfare somehow didn’t affect women.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2021
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Meredith Wolf Schizer, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
World Mosquito Program View 1 Images In a completely different kind of germ warfare, researchers have tested out a way to drop mosquitoes infected with disease-fighting bacteria over populations prone to outbreaks of dengue fever.
—Michael Franco, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2024
Imperial Japan killed as many as 30 million civilians in East Asia, while subjecting many thousands to torturous medical experiments and germ warfare.
—Eric Levitz, Vox, 3 June 2024
There was sufficient evidence from eyewitnesses and accomplices to lend credibility to charges of germ warfare.
—TIME, 4 May 2024
Claims included wild stories about secret U.S. germ warfare labs or Nazi conspiracies or that Ukrainian refugees were committing crimes and taking jobs from people who had welcomed them.
—David Klepper, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2024
The country had been on the receiving end of germ warfare, on the part of the Imperial Japanese Army’s biowarfare Unit 731 during World War II.
—Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Mar. 2020
Emergent BioSolutions, which Mr. El-Hibri took public in 2006, bought up competitors in order to sell treatments for smallpox, botulism and other potential agents of germ warfare, becoming a prime federal contractor for biodefense vaccines and treatments.
—Emily Langer, Washington Post, 5 May 2022
The germ warfare somehow didn’t affect women.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2021
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“Germ warfare.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/germ%20warfare. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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germ warfare
noun
germ war·fare
-ˈwȯr-ˌfe(ə)r 
: the use of harmful microorganisms (as bacteria) as weapons in war
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