2004 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 31 Oct 2004 19:28:47 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Army bio test in 1950 may have changed microbial ecology
 
Serratia has dark history in region 
Army test in 1950 may have changed microbial ecology

Bernadette Tansey
San Francisco Chronicle 
October 31, 2004 

Serratia is a bacterium that some doctors and residents of the Bay Area
have been familiar with for many years. 

In 1950, government officials believed that serratia did not cause
disease. That belief was later used as a justification for a secret
post-World War II Army experiment that became a notorious disaster tale
about the microbe. 

The Army used serratia to test whether enemy agents could launch a
biological warfare attack on a port city such as San Francisco from a
location miles offshore. 

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/31/SIDER.TMP

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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