Toxic Black Mold and Biological Weapons
Biological weapons have been made from T-2 Trichothecene mycotoxins, the same mycotoxins that are produced by the toxic black molds growing in thousands of homes. The only difference between the mycotoxins in these biological weapons which can kill instantly and the mycotoxins that are found in homes infested with toxic mold which make you sick over time is the level of concentration. Several countries have grown toxic mold in order to harvest T-2 mycotoxins to be used in concentrated quantities in weapons of biological warfare.Mold in the "Yellow Rain" Biological Weapon Attacks
During the Vietnam War concentrated T-2 Trichothecene mycotoxins were released over remote jungle areas in Laos resulting in over 6300 deaths between 1975 and 1981. These biological attacks were dubbed Yellow Rain because of the eyewitness's descriptions of a yellow oily liquid being released from low flying aircraft.
In one case, witnesses reported seeing a cloud of yellow liquid falling from the sky onto a village. When they entered the village they found every person and animal had died. As they left the village they reported feeling severe shortness of breath.
Yellow Rain attacks also occurred in Kampuchea during 1979 to 1981 leading to over 1000 deaths and were used by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1981 resulting in over 3000 deaths.
Mold Used in Biological Weapons During the Gulf War
It has been reported that during the Desert Storm campaign of 1991, T-2 mycotoxins were used against American soldiers by Iraq in a biological weapon. Afer an Iraqi missile was detonated over a US miliary base in Saudi Arabia, the American soldiers reported symptoms that were consistent with Trichothecene mycotoxicosis. It is also believed that Gulf War syndrome is caused at least in part by exposure to T-2 mycotoxins. Trichothecene mycotoxins had also reportedly been used by Iraq against Iran in the Iran-Iraq war.