MIC 130 UPDATED FINAL EXAMS ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Geneva protocal of 1925 - ✔✔-Put into effect 1928; 29 nations signed including US
-Treaty included: "A protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating Gas,
and of Biological Methods of Warfare"
-Banned all use during war
-Treaty was not ratified by US or Japan until 2014 and 1970
✔✔Glanders - ✔✔Infectious disease spread through direct contact with infected animals
-Fever and chills with sweating, muscle aches, chest pain, muscle tightness,
headaches, nasal drainage, light sensitivity
-can get localized, pulmonary, bloodstream or chronic infection
✔✔Did the Geneva Protocol work? Post-Geneva Protocol - ✔✔Bacillus anthracis
(anthrax) and other agents were developed for weaponization by: US, Japan, Russia,
Germany, Great Britain
-Protocol didnt mention production, storage, or transfer of biological agents
✔✔Camp (Fort) Detrick United states - ✔✔British wanted a biological weapons program
-US started one in April 1943
-Since 1969 used for biological defense program
-Site of several US medical research facilities
, ✔✔US and British biowarfare programs in WW2 (1944-45) - ✔✔US and British leaders
developed plans to drop hundreds of bomblets with anthrax over German cities
✔✔Japan biowarefare program in WW2 (1932-1945) - ✔✔-Japan invaded Manchuria in
1931
-Developed unit 731 (housed in china secret) for BW research, development, and
production facility
-Thousands of chinese, koreans, russians, criminals, and P.O.W.'s were experimented
on
✔✔P.O.W - ✔✔prisoner of war
✔✔Ping Fan, Manchuria - ✔✔Developed infectious agents: Yersinia pestis (plague),
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), Virbio cholera (cholera)
-Never charged with war crimes
✔✔Why weren't Japanese researches prosecuted (why was it kept a secret)? - ✔✔-US
did not want Soviets to have information and encourage them to do the same thing
- It was helpful for us to have germ program with human data
-Hard to advance a program if everyone knew
-Repulsion that civilians would have had wanted public to shut down the program
✔✔How did Japan experiment with spreading plague? - ✔✔Infected fleas with plague
bacteria that were in airplanes that got dropped over chinese cities
✔✔Who did Japanese experiment on/what did they do? - ✔✔-Experimented on
peasants, and did autopsies before death.
-Preferred agent was inhaled anthrax for pulmonary anthrax
✔✔Pine Bluff Arsenal 1950 - ✔✔Us army installation in Arkansas
-BW production facility on 14,000 acres
-Manufactured organisms that cause: Brucellosis, Tularemia, Anthrax, Q-fever, VEE
(Venezuelan equine encephalitis), Botulinum toxin
✔✔Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) - ✔✔-Emerging infectious disease in Latin
America
-Mainly in animals but humans can catch it as well
Symptoms include: increased sleepiness, confusion, severe headaches, photophobia,
neck rigidity, seizures, neurological deficits, coma, and death
✔✔Biowarfare experiments in the US (San Francisco, 1950) - ✔✔Took bacteria Serratia
marcescens and weaponized it into ship under the golden gate bridge
-Wanted to see how far the bacteria would travel based on the wind
-Caused elevated risk of UTI, pnemonia, and death
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Geneva protocal of 1925 - ✔✔-Put into effect 1928; 29 nations signed including US
-Treaty included: "A protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating Gas,
and of Biological Methods of Warfare"
-Banned all use during war
-Treaty was not ratified by US or Japan until 2014 and 1970
✔✔Glanders - ✔✔Infectious disease spread through direct contact with infected animals
-Fever and chills with sweating, muscle aches, chest pain, muscle tightness,
headaches, nasal drainage, light sensitivity
-can get localized, pulmonary, bloodstream or chronic infection
✔✔Did the Geneva Protocol work? Post-Geneva Protocol - ✔✔Bacillus anthracis
(anthrax) and other agents were developed for weaponization by: US, Japan, Russia,
Germany, Great Britain
-Protocol didnt mention production, storage, or transfer of biological agents
✔✔Camp (Fort) Detrick United states - ✔✔British wanted a biological weapons program
-US started one in April 1943
-Since 1969 used for biological defense program
-Site of several US medical research facilities
, ✔✔US and British biowarfare programs in WW2 (1944-45) - ✔✔US and British leaders
developed plans to drop hundreds of bomblets with anthrax over German cities
✔✔Japan biowarefare program in WW2 (1932-1945) - ✔✔-Japan invaded Manchuria in
1931
-Developed unit 731 (housed in china secret) for BW research, development, and
production facility
-Thousands of chinese, koreans, russians, criminals, and P.O.W.'s were experimented
on
✔✔P.O.W - ✔✔prisoner of war
✔✔Ping Fan, Manchuria - ✔✔Developed infectious agents: Yersinia pestis (plague),
Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), Virbio cholera (cholera)
-Never charged with war crimes
✔✔Why weren't Japanese researches prosecuted (why was it kept a secret)? - ✔✔-US
did not want Soviets to have information and encourage them to do the same thing
- It was helpful for us to have germ program with human data
-Hard to advance a program if everyone knew
-Repulsion that civilians would have had wanted public to shut down the program
✔✔How did Japan experiment with spreading plague? - ✔✔Infected fleas with plague
bacteria that were in airplanes that got dropped over chinese cities
✔✔Who did Japanese experiment on/what did they do? - ✔✔-Experimented on
peasants, and did autopsies before death.
-Preferred agent was inhaled anthrax for pulmonary anthrax
✔✔Pine Bluff Arsenal 1950 - ✔✔Us army installation in Arkansas
-BW production facility on 14,000 acres
-Manufactured organisms that cause: Brucellosis, Tularemia, Anthrax, Q-fever, VEE
(Venezuelan equine encephalitis), Botulinum toxin
✔✔Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE) - ✔✔-Emerging infectious disease in Latin
America
-Mainly in animals but humans can catch it as well
Symptoms include: increased sleepiness, confusion, severe headaches, photophobia,
neck rigidity, seizures, neurological deficits, coma, and death
✔✔Biowarfare experiments in the US (San Francisco, 1950) - ✔✔Took bacteria Serratia
marcescens and weaponized it into ship under the golden gate bridge
-Wanted to see how far the bacteria would travel based on the wind
-Caused elevated risk of UTI, pnemonia, and death
