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To the Editor: The review¹ of our book by Drs Wilde and Johnson misrepresents the science and history of biological warfare (BW) during the Korean War era. They fail to cite studies and original sources that might have changed their conclusions about "experiments that do not seem logical, based on the level of knowledge that existed in 1950 as well as today."

Wilde and Johnson dismiss as "anecdotal" our evidence from Chinese and North Korean medical sources by claiming that (1) Chinese medical science was backward, and no one with appropriate training evaluated the evidence; (2) the scientific information was vague or incorrect; (3) BW using insects as vectors is fanciful, as insects cannot survive air drops; (4) the outbreaks were of endemic diseases that probably occurred naturally.

The first claim is simply wrong. The Chinese medical scientists involved had affiliations with at least 30 major European and US educational . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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