Japan/China: Germ Warfare
9 minutes, 2004
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Much of the fears around Biological Warfare is fear of the unknown – how does it affect communities? How would it affect us? We went to Zhe Jiang province in south east China, the only country in the world that can tell us the immediate, short term and long term effects of extensive biological warfare launched at civilians as well as troops. During WW2, the Japanese Army used plague, typhoid, para-typhoid, dysentery and anthrax. In just one area alone, 50,000 people died and 300,000 people became ill from mysterious diseases that seemed to appear out of thin air. In a post war pact, the Japanese handed the allies their knowledge of biological warfare. It was a deal that allows Japan to deny its past.