lace a carcass in the town well. By placing the deceased animal in the well, it infected all of the drinking water with such a disease as cholera. The first uses of biological warfare may have occurred in 1346. Tatars, a clan in Italy, took hold of the port city of Caffa, an Italian merchant and soldier settlement. With the Italians showing no sign of defeat, a mysterious deadly disease, later described as an early form of the plague, infected the clan and thousands died leading to the weakening of the army.
             Mustard and tear gas were developed and used throughout World War I on both sides of the trenches. From April 1915 to the end of World War I, both the Allied and Central Powers worked quickly to produce chemical and biological weapons. The casualties that accounted from chemical and biological weapons in World War I are estimated around 92,000 out of the estimated 11.5 million deaths.
             Between 1935 and 1936 a war was fought between Italy and Ethiopia. The Italian military had advantages over the Ethiopians with artillery shells and the use of bombs from aircrafts. The Italian air force soon began using drums and bombs full of poisonous gas which sprayed a blanket of chemicals from low-flying airplanes. The chemical weapons easily wiped out the Ethiopians, and caused a deeply low morale, whic
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