Biological Warfare in Africa during the 1960s and 1970sDuring my research in many different books, reports on biological warfare in Africa during the 1960s and 1970s, I found a number of things. They include South Africa's chemical and biological warfare program and the onset of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the Ebola virus. Biological warfare is defined as “the use of harmful living things (such as disease-causing germs) as weapons in warfare” (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). In this report I will discuss South Africa's Chemical and Biological Warfare Program and some snippets of theories about AIDS and the Ebola virus. South Africa's chemical and biological warfare program has been ongoing since the First World War. Even after the establishment of the Geneva Convention of 1925. Africa did not completely cease production and research of its chemical and biological warfare program (Boston). Indeed, during the Second World War, South Africa bypassed the protocol of the convention and began planning a broader program of chemical and biological warfare, to protect the country from the threat of the Nazi regime. After the Second World War, the South African Defense Force continued research into chemical and biological warfare but more for riot control. In the 1960s, South Africa realized it needed to upgrade its chemical and biological warfare program after the Egyptians began using chemicals in Yemen in the mid-1960s. It was not until the 1970s that South Africa began producing more destructive agents, although South Africa signed the Biological Warfare Convention (BWC) in 1972 and ratified it in November 1975 (Boston). South Africa increased production of biological agents and chemical… middle of paper… countries during the 1960s and 1970s or used as population control (Youde 2007). There are many theories about how AIDS was created, but the one that remains true to this day is that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS originated in chimpanzees and was transmitted by them. It is known to everyone that AIDS is a huge problem for the African population today. In conclusion, many serious situations have occurred in Africa with biological warfare, use of biological agents in water sources, and Ebola virus epidemics. Although the chemical and biological warfare program began as a defensive measure against ongoing threats, it ultimately proved more problematic than necessary. Even today, Africa is faced with epidemics of the Ebola virus and the AIDS epidemic, which is a biological warfare resulting from man-made or natural incidences..