What were some notable examples of poison or infectious disease used as a tool of guerilla/insurgent warfare?

by Visceralrealism

The example that leaps out is the attempted poisoning of imprisoned SS officers by Nakam in 1946, although I'm more interested in actual wartime examples. I'm more interested in examples of widespread utility (rather than, say, the posoining of one particular general or politician).

MyopiaPod

There are hundreds of good examples, but as a medical person I have a few insane ones. One of my favorite is the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack. Rajneeshpuram was a small city run by an Indian cult, led by a guru named Rajneesh. Oregonians were nervous and they were threatening to rescind the incorporation of the city. The only way to deal with this was take over the county commissioners board. Knowing that they would not be able to win the election the Ranjneeshis resorted to something devious, biological warfare. Having developed a form of salmonella in suspension, they would go to restaurants in the nearby town (and county seat) of Antelope, purchase a small meal and pour a vial of salmonella in the salad bar. There were 751 cases of salmonella in the outbreak.. There is a really good podcast of the story [here from the show 99% Invisible.] (http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/rajneeshpuram/)