bioweapon
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- noun
- /ˈbaɪoʊˌwɛpən/
- NSFW
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arma biológica
- Scientists are concerned that the research on viruses could lead to the accidental creation of a bioweapon if safety measures are not strictly followed.
- bioweapons program
Were they doing this kind of work not to create a bioweapon, but in order to understand these viruses, maybe to develop vaccines and treatments?
- Were they doing this kind of work not to create a bioweapon, but in order to understand these viruses, maybe to develop vaccines and treatments?
- So a lot of the research that you use to develop bioweapons is identical to the research that you use to develop a vaccine or it can be.
- So yeah, it's it's not bioengineering bioweapon.
Examples
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Gordon: What means of delivery does Syria have available for its bioweapons?
Blog text (16) -
Thousands of scientists are now working with bioweapons agents, many for the first time.
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To be truly effective, a bioweapon should be launched with no warning.
Fiction book (1999) -
Were they doing this kind of work not to create a bioweapon, but in order to understand these viruses, maybe to develop vaccines and treatments?
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However, the Soviet Union's Biopreparat organization turned Black Death from a medieval plague into a 20th-century bioweapon.
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We have procedures and some consensus on biosecurity, safeguards, and other related notions designed to protect society against untoward discoveries of new bioweapons or deadly pathogens.
Academic text (2010) -
The source of those fears is reports by scientists from the former Soviet Union, which U.S. officials have reportedly confirmed, that their country sponsored a secret bioweapons program in which huge quantities of deadly microbes, including smallpox, plague, and anthrax, were cultured and stored for use as biological weapons.
Academic text (1999) -
The government imposed strict regulations to prevent the development of a bioweapon that could spread rapidly among the population.
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The international community is alarmed by reports of a country attempting to create a new bioweapon using genetically engineered bacteria.
Synonyms
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A weapon that uses germs like bacteria or viruses to harm people, animals and plants
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Etymology
Bioweapon comes from the part bio-, the same part in biology that means 'life', and weapon, which means 'tool to hurt'. So a bioweapon is a weapon that uses 'germs' or other living things to harm people, animals, or plants.