An interesting article from 10 years ago about how an Army experiment with microbes in the SF Bay Area in 1950 is still having health effects there now. I dont have any strong feeling that this particular incident is related to our Mystery Illness phenomenon. But it certainly reinforces my suspicion that the apparent systematic burial of everything at all related to Mystery Illness likely has DOD roots. >The Chronicles David Perlman, who reported on the revelations in 1976, found no evidence that the Army had alerted health authorities before it blanketed the region with bacteria. As the news surfaced, doctors started wondering whether the Army experiment that seeded the Bay Area with serratia two decades earlier might be responsible for heart valve infections then cropping up as well as serious infections seen among intravenous drug users in the 60s and 70s, said Dr. Lee Riley, a professor of infectious disease at UC Berkeley. >Some people now speculate that descendants of the Army germs are still causing infections here today, he said. The secret bio-warfare test might have permanently changed the microbial ecology of the region, the theory goes. But to prove it, researchers would need to take a DNA fingerprint of the Army strain for comparison with todays microbes. sfgate/health/article/Serratia-has-dark-history-in-region-Army-test-2677623.php
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 06:42:30 +0000
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