Archive for November 1st, 2004

History – Serratia has dark history in region – Army test in 1950 may have changed microbial ecology

Monday, November 1st, 2004

San Franciso Chronicle – 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.
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