TY  - JOUR
T1  - BIological warfare in the 1940s and 1950s—reply
AU  - Fontanarosa PB, Wilde H
Y1  - 2000/08/02
N1  - 10.1001/jama.284.5.561
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 561
EP  - 561
VL  - 284
IS  - 5
N2  - 
In Reply: Drs Endicott and Hagerman asserted
that US and Canadian forces used biological weapons during the Korean War
causing outbreaks of such diverse diseases as bacterial meningitis; scrub-,
murine-, and tick-borne typhus; dengue fever; encephalitis; cholera; smallpox;
plague; hemorrhagic fever; dysentery; and typhoid on the battlefield and in
mainland China.1 All of these infections
had been reported from the area decades prior to the war.2- 5
Five isolated cases of respiratory anthrax were described from different localities,
occurring some 250 miles apart in northern China during the Korean War.1

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.284.5.561
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.284.5.561
ER  -