You know Bio-Warfare has always both intrigued and scared the Hell out of me..the though of putting something like this in an aerosol bomb or in a city water supply makes alot of folks at the CDC terminal insomniacs. The Imperial Japanese Army was the first to use plague, when in 1940 they dropped plague infected fleas on China.
The good news is when this bacterial mass murderer was in it’s heyday (Black Death of 1340) was a time when antibiotics were non-existent. Now, if a person exposed to BP is treated with Doxycycline Antibiotics within 24 hours, his chances for survival are very good.
I would highly recommend to my friends here in the South that like to eat squirrels (particularly their brains) to avoid them from now on!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubonic_plague