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Originally Posted by Olefin
Bio weapon attacks against large scale population centers - where you get 33-50% casualties or more - definitely did not happen in the T2K canon...
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Not in the areas already detailed, no, at least not that are known at least.
The "beauty" of bioweapons is they can be mistaken for a natural event, especially in a T2K world where communications are limited, medical aid sparse and actual testing a distant memory.
Meanwhile, you've got Bears Den and the warhead in that which shows that bioweapons absolutely are included in the canon. That particular one was EXTREMELY mild though in comparison to most of the nasties the Soviets were working on and producing IRL. The Marburg virus has a fatality rate of up around 80% as it occurs naturally, and is transmitted through bodily fluids. The Soviet weaponized version is 100% with a run time of about a week before all the bodies organs basically liquefy, and even worse, and they've added in other vectors for infection as well through gene splicing, etc.