1.   A Japanese plane had dropped plague bacteria on the vilage.

2.   But deliberately released smallpox virus, plague bacteria or some other pathogen might spread widely before it is ever detected, they said.

3.   If clinical trials on humans are successful, it may allay fears of a worldwide pandemic started by antibiotic-resistant plague bacteria.

4.   Plague bacteria are carried by fleas and spread from rodents, rabbits and domestic animals to people.

5.   The danger results from the breakdown of lymph nodes, leading plague bacteria to spread to the lungs to cause pneumonia.

6.   The pneumonic plague bacteria then showed up in blood tests.

7.   They dusted insecticides over vast areas to kill fleas that could spread plague bacteria from rodents to humans.

8.   Experts say terrorists would most likely put plague bacteria into an aerosol to be inhaled, causing the pneumonic variety.

9.   Iraq has also yet to admit to producing plague bacteria as part of its biological warfare program, he said.

10.   Recently, British researchers announced they had deciphered the genetic blueprint of plague bacteria.