World but still fewer than the nearly 800 italian dead announced on saturday should the Prime Minister koizumi is calling it the countrys toughest crisis since world war 2 all nonessential businesses are being shut for the time being russia is dispatching called a planes of military medical aid to italy germany is banning gatherings in public of more than 2 people and chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine off the contact with an infected doctor. Spain the state of emergency is being extended till april 11th after the governments announced nearly 400 new coronavirus deaths and the pandemic appears to be taking a particularly high toll on health workers. As you can often appear but another figure that is what our ng ows and the one that is affecting the most people involved in the Crisis Response is the number of Health Care Professionals affected. These are 3475 and it represents 10 percent of all cases that greece with more than 600 firm cases is to impose a curfew on monday in the United Kingdom as you can see its quiet but there are still people out on the streets and thats because even though the government to shut down many businesses its advice to stay inside and socially distance yourself at the moment fall short of an outright order but Boris Johnson is hinting that if people continue to ignore this tougher measures could follow i take this is vice seriously follow it because its absolutely crucial and as ive said throughout this process we will keep the implementation of these measures under constant review and yes of course we will bring forward further measures if we think that is that is necessary the u. K. With 281. 00 deaths could be just 2 or 3 weeks behind italy says the Prime Minister. Al jazeera london. At least 23 people were killed when a riot broke out in a colombian prison spurred on by panic over the corona virus 83 others were injured during the unrest that a jail in the capital bogota its the latest in a string of prison riots across the country with many fearing an outbreak behind bars more than a 1000000000 indians have been asked to stay indoors during the daytime nationwide curfew with the number of cases rising every Day Health CareOfficials Say the country is now at a critical stage all metro passenger trains on interstate buses have counseled their services until the end of the month the financial fallout from the virus is growing with more airline suffering as demand plummets emirates one of the worlds biggest carriers is suspending most passenger flights from wednesday keeping on a small number of destinations jobs wont be lost but staff do face pay cuts and Turkish Airlines is also halting almost all of its International Flights in the United States where one in 5 people is now under lockdown new yorks mayor says the city now has more than 8000 confirmed cases of corona virus there are now more than 27000 confirmed cases in america and at least 340 deaths Army Helicopters are being used in lebanon to spread the stay at home message they circled over cities across the country with safety messages being sent out from loudspeakers lebanons borders ports and airports have all been shut until the end of the month lebanon has 248. 00 infections of coronavirus and 4 deaths those are the top stories up next manmade invisible threat thanks for. The. Its bad enough to catch a disease naturally but to take a disease and turn it into a weapon to enhance the disease to make it more virulent or more contagious or resistant to known vaccines thats particularly again just kind of goes off the charts there its turning Mother Nature against us. Weapons that destroyed by spreading deadly diseases have a long in unhappy history billions of dollars have been spent by governments to create pathogens that can cause fatal illnesses even today some countries are stockpiling just such a deadly arsenal in a widely reported News Conference syria has admitted as much. A perhaps more dangerous than the age of rapidly advanced technology its quite possible for individuals or groups to create biological mayhem. 12 countries that are battling an outbreak of a nasty strain of e. Coli live theater strains of all the consequences of this would be longer just not a libya harm see image i know alison intrigues you all to do that im for the clearly not Mission Critical 16 people have already died identify the source of this because like contamination has become ever more urgent some have even suggested that the super super of the 3 strain recall i could have been engineered in a lab. The World Health Organization calls the deliberate contamination of our food one of the major biological threats of the 21st century. In the modern globalized economy where food gets transported all over the world there are a lot of opportunities for somebody to contaminate food with with biological agents. And i dont want to go into much detail but there was a an article that was published in the proceedings of the National Academy of sciences about. Some touching Dairy Products milk using a bunch of talks and you can cause horrible damage with death many thousands of coffee. Cold jackson is a Senior Scientist at one of the United States most important biological laboratories. That is kind of frightening when you think over the last 2 different passes will somebody there are a Large Population or a small part of the population what goes with food there are cases in the are not so this will pass for people about that. Oregon authorities announced that the most serioUs Biological attack in u. S. History was carried out not by Foreign Terrorists but by the followers of a homegrown religious cult. Salad bars and 10 oclock restaurants were deliberately contaminated with salmonella. 751 people were poisoned and 45 hospitalized as disciples of korea right knew she sought to incapacitate voters and see their own candidates when the 1984 was a go county election. The sun the incident occurred in the United States the biological attacks could happen anywhere in the world and so father has not been a coordinated global plan about how to deal with this. I know. 6 the word terrorism evokes images of airplanes smashing into Office Towers of bombs blowing up in markets these remain real threats so do attacks by chemicals mustard gas defoliants on nerve agents. But there is something even more insidioUs Biological weapon. Thats the whole point of terrorism is this to put enormous psychological pressure on the audience to try to reach for talking about biological agents i mean unseen in many cases that you can smell them for that very reason those kinds of weapons have a much more powerful psychological impact audiences. Even going 5 people with a bio as you would would be more scary than killing 200. 00 people with a conventional explosive its been no confirmed. Cases of anthrax in britain but its been a day of false alarms the sorting office in liverpool was closed down and workers were forced to leave the Stock Exchange in london for a short time today Police Say People should stay calm but vigilant the latest victims in florida the scene of the 1st outbreak of anthrax 5 new cases reported by the American Media company overnight on the basis of blood tests carried out on every employee the fact that this seems to be spreading 10 days after the 1st victim died confirmation of americas worst fears never mind the source then the point is the kind of on capitol hill today you could hear it loud and clear threats from biological and chemical agents are real. Following the 911. 00 attack and the 2001 anthrax murders the United States government poured billions of dollars into Homeland Security experts from around the world were trying to do well funded scientifically burra toris and think tanks high on their list of threats to be investigated with the use of deadly pathogens as weapons a long and ugly stain on the history of mankind oh my gosh warfare 1st reared its head when man started fighting man you know whether it was putting scorpions in a clay pot and tossing him at your enemy or taking bodies people who had died from the plague and tossing them over city walls in Medieval Times poisoning Water Supplies these are all ancient techniques and biological warfare but it was only during the major wars of the last century where science started. To conduct this time. The real danger of the real threat was the beginning of the 20th century youre moving into bombs airplanes and the. Really and so microbiology. During the sino japanese war the japanese government engaged in a massive biological Weapons Program between 19401943 japan dropped hundreds of bombs infected with deadly germs on 11 chinese cities. As many as 200000 chinese citizens harish. They did initially the attacks on northern cities with plague and people did die and then later in the early part of the 1940 s. There were more aggressive attacks where they used anthrax planters cholera and other diseases. Martin for months is a United States pathologist with an interest in medical history in 1998 a colleague sent him a package containing autopsies performed on chinese victims years before i opened it up and they were page after page of these people murdered by biological weapons. It was the 1st time and one of the few times when i was looking at it. I could feel palpable evil in there were. Docked with them and discovered that some of the victims of japanese bombing had survived in 2000 to travel today if it is called make villages for the simple reason that people who were there in the summer of 1942 got rotten eggs when you interview these people you get a very similar story a lot of people started getting boils on their bodies throbbing thing it burst minute it loses pus and blood and continues to be horribly painful and essentially never heal eventually talked of the most ski concluded that the villages was suffering from glendas a disease that attacks horses and which for decades had been all but eliminated. The japanese had dropped bombs laden with this pathogen they spread cholera they spread typhoid fever is produced in theory they spread glanders they spread anthrax and they spread plague. Especially doing a biological scorched earth. Perhaps even more horrific than the dropping of germ bombs where the experiments carried out by unit 731. In manchuria. Japanese sent out their secret police and rounded up troublemakers and they would end up at unit 731. 00 as human guinea pigs and they would inoculate them with diseases to see how long they would die and they would tie them to stakes and drop bombs out of airplanes to see how well the bombs spread the disease. Theres always an aspect when youre dealing with biological weapons or chemical weapons some extent of extermination the way you would exterminate. After the end of the wool. Japanese scientists who worked at unit 731 were granted amnesty by the United States in exchange for information on the biological Weapons Program the japanese who did bad science killed thousands of people doing it got off scot free in may ended up going back to the universities and became chairman of departments and became captains of industry and an. On happy life. Successive japanese governments have been extremely reluctant to take responsibility for atrocities committed during world war 2. All the major powers have dabbled in the germ warfare but british scientists did their grim work here in this Research Establishment they stored 50 kilograms of bacteriological agents enough to kill every living thing on a. The british experimented with typhoid dysentery and cholera testing these pathogens on animals. If youre using live agent tests and this was done out in the ocean in many cases what you would do is tie animals on cages on deck and disperse the agent and see how well it would affect the animals and this was also done for example by the United Kingdom with sheep being tested with anthrax on go and island. World war 2 did not bring an end to biological weapons the cold war heated up providing another excuse to produce this deadly arsenal. Britain france and canada for example embarked on a program that experimenting with many kinds of diseases. That awful it would be enough to. Be illegal dose and it was to kill Something Like 50000. 00 people this bottle on the other hand contains a biological agent simulants if that were friends of senator ensigns which causes the disease to remain there could be enough in that vault to infect every man woman and child in the world. But it was the Us BiologicalWeapons Program that was the most dangerous 8 it was by far the largest and most ambitious 8 aggressor military leaders know of disadvantage chemical and biological agents cannot ordinarily be detected by the human sensory or reactionary. The effect can be deadly to part of the state guard the experimenters dangerous organisms are confined to safety cabinets. Using rubber gloves which are sealed to the cabinets scientists can handle deadly cultures and still be safe from infection. With the cold war the United States begins a biological Weapons Program which is twinned with the Nuclear Program i thought unicity of any potential agent is another important criteria. Of course youre familiar with the pathogenicity of the 2 linus talks of a suspension of which is were being tested by intraperitoneal injection of mike. Many kinds of animals were used in us experiments mice rats rabbits guinea pigs and most especially monkeys the restraining boxes used to hold the monkey in position to receive the measured air assault. The on a horse and passed through a series of air locks and positioned in a sealed exposure chamber commensurate using monkeys got all the monkeys you want but you still dont know at the end of the day whether to make a human sick how much will make a human sick how long the person will stay sick and so you need to have human subjects in order to proof test whether. We went through all kinds of room. Lights we changed our clothes in the scrub then weve got on the elevator and went up to a catwalk in each port hole they had a like a telephone booth and thats when you went into them theyd close the door naturally you were hooked up to the tube. You can smell it taste it. If you 2nd so poor. Ken jones was inhaling q. Fever a bacterial infection which can result in hepatitis and pneumonia. He is a religious pacifist one of a 2000 Conscientious Objectors who volunteered for operation white coat. You want to end 43. 00 where some 600. 00 military and civilian scientists Work Together in research at the Army Biological Laboratories to protect this country against a biological attack that is a silent assault by an invisible cloud that carries disease organism. There was testing on humans often done in a facility at fort dietrich known as the 8 ball which was in l. A. Sion chamber where they could disperse aerosols and see you know how much it takes to infect a human but they were given immediate medical treatment into the best of my knowledge there were no fatalities. By code volunteers claim that the Us Government assured them that all testing would be for defensive purposes only this is the make of the vaccine to protect you. And make it a hazmat suit to protect you against mass to protect you. Lot of hospital procedure come from this operation. What was happening at fort dietrich was not only a defensive program but also an offensive program so. It was research that could be used for either purpose. Here was here controversy about the White Coat Program there was a lot of heat about the biological Weapons Program there were ethical worries that is it do we really want to start a disease that might sweep the country. We just got rid of. Any. Biological weapons that. President nixon had decided that given the success of hiroshima and nagasaki in ending world war 2 Nuclear Weapons with a supreme deterrent the Us Biological alsono was deemed unnecessary in 969 the United States halted offensive biological research and eventually destroyed all stockpiles the idea was that the nation state the us as a nation state didnt need it it had the clear weapons with which we could destroy large numbers of people quite nicely thank you. And that you know that possessing these things would just encourage other people to go. Whitehall april 10th 972 a place from the time of real significance for the future of the world and the people in it in 1972103 nations including the United States and the soviet union approved a Convention Prohibiting the production of biological weapons. The treaty to which these nations have committed. Bind them to stop making biologic