Resumen de The 17th-century plot to use hats as bioweapons
During the world's longest siege, a 17th-century scientist hatched an ambitious plan--to weaponize the bubonic plague by painting it onto hats. The plot, which has just come to light, was discovered by Eleni Thalassinou at the University of Athens in Greece and her colleagues in six letters sent between 1649 and 1651. During that time, the town now known as Heraklion in Crete was under Venetian control but besieged by Ottoman troops. Michiel Angelo Salamon, a doctor in what is now Croatia, had an idea. The letters, sent between the rulers of the Venetian empire and the governor of a Croatian outpost, detail Salamon's scheme far harnessing the plague, the deadly infection that swept across Europe in 1348 and had been circulating there ever since.
