What was that about biological weapons again?

[unixronin]

An article published by SFGate today details how the US Army sprayed the San Francisco Bay Area with the bacterium serratia marcescens in 1950, and didn't tell anyone.  It is now believed that the experiment may have permanently altered the microbiological climate of the Bay Area.

Update:

atuttle provides the following additional or alternate links for folks who can't access the one above:

• http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Military-Germs-US-Cities.htm
• http://free.freespeech.org/americanstateterrorism/weapons/US-Bioweapons.html
• http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread59987/pg1

Comments

Thanks.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

So noted as an update.

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I dunno if you caught the implications of the last bit on the SFGate article, but basically it's pinning this years "flu vaccine crisis" on this event.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Well, they're blaming it on serratia marcescens, anyway. It was not clear to me that they were making any attempt to blame it on the specific incident, considering that the vaccine is -- or was -- being manufactured in Liverpool, UK.

In other news, conga-rats on your new attachment! May it prove long and happy.