The truth about bacterial warfare

Abstract

Through a series of strange psychological factors, consideirable number of people these days have developed a habit of worrying about real and fancied dangers, a habit which is destroying their delight in living and hampering their energies which are, in fact, more than ever necessary in these hard times. One of the bogeys casting their shadows on human activities is the fear that some nation will wage war by bringing about an epidemic in the country of its adversaries. Such an epidemic would be caused by the dispersal of disease germs, whether bacteria proper, viruses or rickettsiae.