ABSTRACT
Today, the prospect of weaponizing microbes or their products is especially horrifying. Biological weapons have been fashioned using mainly bacteria and viruses as human or animal pathogens. Similarly, there is an increased interest in fungi-not as pathogens, but for the toxins they may produce. It has been documented that T-2 toxin (from Fusarium spp.) and aflatoxin (AF; from Aspergillus spp.) have been produced by Iraq and other countries for use in weapons programs [2,3].
