IP: Poppy-killing fungus developed (BBC News)

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch@internautics.com>
To: <farber@cis.upenn.edu>


(The use of biological weapons in the "war" on drugs seems really ill
conceived to me.  We know so little about the eco-system as it is, what new
horror will we unleash through such efforts?  </rr>)


Poppy-killing fungus developed (BBC News)


Scientists are developing a virulent fungus in an effort to combat the
worldwide trade in heroin.  The fungus kills opium poppies, the raw material
for the drug.


...


Britain would hope to unleash enough fungus to infect thousands of acres of
poppies in grown in the central Asia region.


America would be expected to deploy it in the "Golden Triangle" regions of
south-east Asia, and South America, where most of its heroin originates,
says the newspaper report.


Full Story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_121000/121735.stm

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