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BANTING AND BEST, Nobel prize winners famous for discovering insulin, were intimately involved in bacteriological warfare research, and Banting wrote a blueprint for the next two decades, “including infecting bullets and shells, rearing disease-carrying insects, and aerial spraying of deadly bacteria.” In 1940, Banting started an offensive biological warfare research effort in Canada with the UK and US governments, which led to testing anthrax munitions. (Reference: John Bryden, Deadly Allies:Canada’s Secret War, 1937-1947 (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart c1989).

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