NOVA's Bioterror, a two-year long investigation, is reported by the same New York Times team behind the bestsellers, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War.
Agents of disease have been used as weapons of terror for centuries, long before scientists understood the mechanics of how germs spread illness. But where once plague-infested corpses were catapulted over castle walls, the genetically modified "super-plague" of today could unleash global devastation. This illustrated feature reviews the past - and the unfolding - history of biowarfare and bioterrorism.