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Biological warfare (BW) — or bacteriological, or germ, warfare — has had a presence in popular culture for over 100 years. Public interest in it became intense during the Cold War, especially the 1960s and ‘70s, and continues unabated. This article comprises a list of popular culture works referencing BW or bio-terrorism, but not those pertaining to natural, or unintentional, epidemics. ==Literary== * Jack London, in his 1909 short story '"Yah! Yah! Yah!"', described a fictional punitive European expedition to a South Pacific island deliberately exposing a Polynesian population to measles, causing many deaths. London wrote another science fiction tale the following year, "The Unparalleled Invasion" (1910), in which the Western nations wipe out all of China with a biological attack. * James Tiptree, Jr.'s "The Last Flight of Dr. Ain" (1969) is a short science fiction tale about a scientist traveling the world releasing a virus targeted to eliminate humanity before it can destroy all life on Earth via climate change. The same author also produced "The Screwfly Solution" (1977), a short horror science fiction story about a disease that turns the human sex drive into a drive to kill. * ''The Stand'' (1978): in this Stephen King novel a weaponized strain of influenza (officially known as Project Blue and nicknamed "Captain Trips") is accidentally released from a remote U.S. Army base. * ''The White Plague'' (1982): in this novel by science fiction writer Frank Herbert, a vengeful molecular biologist creates an artificial plague that kills only women, but for which men are the carriers. He releases it in Ireland (for supporting terrorists), England (for oppressing the Irish), and Libya (for training said terrorists); he then holds the governments of the world hostage to his demands or he will release more plagues. * ''The Cobra Event'' (1998), a thriller by Richard Preston, describes an attempted bioterrorism attack on the US with a genetically engineered virus ("Cobra") that fuses the incurable and highly contagious common cold virus with smallpox. The resulting disease ("brain-pox") has symptoms mimicking Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, the common cold, and Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus. * ''The Quick and The Dead'' (2008), this thriller by Matthew John Lee describes the aftermath of an attack on the British Isles using an enhanced smallpox virus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Biological warfare in popular culture」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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