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Somewhat related: In 1950 in operation Sea-Spray [1] the Navy released the bacterium Serratia Marcescens [2] over the Bay Area to gain experimental data for the
by danbruc 10y ago
Somewhat related: In 1950 in operation Sea-Spray [1] the Navy released the bacterium Serratia Marcescens [2] over the Bay Area to gain experimental data for the development of biological weapons.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratia_marcescens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serratia_marcescens
- pmoriarty 10y agoAnd: "From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers — with venereal diseases in what was meant as an effort to test the effectiveness of penicillin."[1] Also see [2] and [3] [1] - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/health/research/02infect.h... [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_experimentation_in_the_U... [3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra