Criteria &Property For For Biowarfare Agents

                                     Property &Criteria  For Biowarfare                               Agents

What Is Biowarfare Agents:-
Use of biological agents like biological toxins,secondary metabolites of plant,animals,insects etc or infectious organisms itself like bacteria, virus,protozoa,fungi etc. To kill humans,plants, animal or to incapacitate above fallowing things in war and terrorism.

History Of Biowarfare agent:-

• The earliest documented incident of the intention to use biological weapons is recorded in Hittite texts of 1500–1200 BC, in which victims of tularemia (rabbit fever) were driven into enemy lands, causing an epidemic. 
• According to Homer's epic poems about the legendary Trojan War, the Iliad and the Odyssey, spears and arrows were tipped with poison.
•  During the First Sacred War in Greece, in about 590 BC, Athensand the Amphictionic League poisoned the water supply of the besieged town of Kirrha (near Delphi) with the toxic plant hellebore.
• In a naval battle against King Eumenes of Pergamon in 184 BC, Hannibal of Carthage had clay pots filled with venomous snakes and instructed his sailors to throw them onto the decks of enemy ships.
• Many tribe in united states uses the plant toxins like saponins and rotenone to use in fishing from ancient times for example..

1.  Catawba, Cherokee, and Delaware tribes uses bark and green nut husk of Black  Walnut (Juglans nigra)  for fishing. 
2.  Yuchi and Creek tribes uses roots,fruits twigs and buds of Devil's Shoestring,  (Symphoricarpos orbiculatus)  and  Horse Chestnut, (Aesculus hippocastanum   L)   for fishing. 
3.  Central and coastal California tribes uses leaves,nuts,fruits and seeds    of Turkey-Mullein (Eremocarpus setigerus),California Buckeye, (Aesculus     California),Indian Turnip, (Arisaema triphyllum)    for fishing.

•  The great mongol emperor genghis khan he used   infectious  cadavers  of mongol  soldiers  which were  used as biowarfare agent in siege of caffa 1346.The cadavers was contagious with  bubonic plague and most  notoriously known as black death. The mobile mongol soldiers was not able to invade the city wall of siege so  mughals used malicious tactics by throwing diseased cadavers to city by useing giant slingshot.

       -:Property &Criteria  For Biowarfare Agents:-

• Biowarfare agent  must have high mortality and morbidity rate.The  minimum mortality and morbidity rate  has to 60%.
• The biowarfare agent has to be highly contagious so that it can spread alongs large population.

1. It has to be spread via air,
2. It has to be spread via water,
3. It has to be spread via bodily fuilds and human to human,
4. It has to be spread via insects,animals,fly etc i:e it has to be zoonotic.
5. It has to be spread via fomites i:e inanimate objects like pencil,cloths etc.

• The biowarfare agent  should not have  any vaccine,antibody and  experimental durg against biowarfare agent know to FDA,WHO or any other health organisation in the world.  
• The biowarfare agent  should   have  vaccine or antibody against biowarfare agent  only to those people who are useing biowarfare agent against other country,community or group of people,in order to protect themself from geting infection.
• The biowarfare agent  should survive  brutal condition like heat,humidity and cold condition.So that it can cause infection in iceland,sahara disert and amazon also.
• The infectivity of biowarfare agent should not be decreasing with time.
• Small amount of  biowarfare agent should kill large amount of population in short span of time.
• Biowarfare agent should be easily transported to destiny without killing biowarfare agent and custom border issue.