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For a slightly more extensive summary that doesn't require someone to read 20-page paper... Jeffrey Lockwood (who also wrote a book on the topic of entomological warfare, writes in a 2012 paper broader in scope:
Yellow fever became the mainstay of the Camp Detrick’s entomological program, when it was
discovered that mosquito larvae would uptake the ...
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The word "standardized" seems like an over-statement to me. The US certainly did investigate the possibility of using yellow fever as a bioweapon during the Cold War, according to Hay (1999):
The literature obtained under the Freedom of Information Act provides
some insight into the working of the United States biological weapons
programme. [...] The ...
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As discussed by Brian the claim is somewhat vague in that it states the theoretical possibility of something and then asserts the existence of something else.
But if take the claim to be existence of such viruses with on-purpose [GoF] enhanced transmissibility, it is true, although the claim (interpreted that way) exaggerates the deadliness of the actual ...
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First I want to be clear that the headline claim of the question is not directly stated in the quotation by Dr. Campbell. The quote in the question states two separate things, one about "what is quite possible to do" and the other about the fact that "there exists viruses contained within biological warfare laboratories". He does not directly claim that the ...
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