The Bush administration has accused Cuba of producing small quantities of germs that can be used in biological warfare and says Libya and Syria are also violating international treaties by making unconventional weapons.
A16 Cuba Accused of Germ Research The Bush administration accused Cuba of producing small quantities of germs that could be used in biological warfare and said Libya and Syria were also violating treaties by making unconventional weapons.
In the case of biological agents, experts in Europe and the United States say, large quantities of germs and toxins can be made in very small laboratories with fewer than a dozen people.
The Original Treaty During the cold war, both the United States and the Soviet Union produced vast quantities of germ weapons, enough to kill everyone on earth.
Most dramatically of all, an internal letter, written by Iraq's top unconventional-weapons official in 1995 to one of Saddam Hussein's sons, asserted unequivocally that Iraq had destroyed its entire inventory of biological weapons agents in 1991, proving the falsity of intelligence estimates that Iraq still possessed large quantities of germ materials.
To see whether there were defects associated with particular proteins that might explain the fertility defect, we used fluorescence microscopy to determine whether the sterility could be explained by a failure to produce continuous quantities of germ cells or whether loss of a type I prenyl protease function caused a spermatid elongation or individualization problem.
In doing so, they agreed not to develop, produce, acquire or stockpile quantities or types of germs that had no "prophylactic, protective or other peaceful purposes".
The Mainichi Shimbun reported Tuesday that investigators had seized not only bacteria-production materials but also quantities of a germ, a kind of botulinus, that can produce a deadly toxin.
Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
"Hospitals are full of germs".
Phones are, in fact, carriers of germs.
