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by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman, 274 pp, with illus, $29.95, ISBN 0-253-33472-1, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1998.

JAMA. 1999;282:1877-1878.

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This book is written in the style of an investigative news report. The authors accuse US and Canadian forces of having waged offensive biological warfare by using artificially infected insects as vectors during the Korean campaign. We concede that all major powers have experimented with biological warfare agents.¹ However, this book suffers from many defects, specifically the use of anecdotal data that appear questionable when seen in the light of current science. Terms like "encephalitis" and "meningitis" are thrown at the reader without definition.

For example, how were the diagnoses made and what kind of encephalitis or meningitis was encountered? Tick-borne, herpes, and Japanese encephalitis were known to be present in much of Asia for decades prior to the Korean War and had been described as early as 1871.^2-3 The flaviviruses causing Japanese encephalitis and dengue fever are transmitted by mosquitoes, are present throughout most of South and Southeast Asia, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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