Bacteriological (bacterial) means of attack, which can be used as bacteriological agents, have been used in armed struggle not so long ago: states began to use bacteriological weapons only after the end of World War II (among them the USA and England). This is somewhat premature, because... many centuries BC Traditional healers (“healers”) quite successfully used the pathogenic properties of certain types of bacteria to cure people of various diseases. Among such examples of the “art of healing” are the Chinese emperors who have long tried to cure Emperor Minzu (Ming Daohuang) of syphilis received from his