On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Jim Choate wrote:
.... on some sort of bio-weapon test that occurred in '66 in San Francisco. He is claiming that deaths resulted. Anyone have a clue what he's talking about?
He is probably talking about a test run by the CIA, Navy Etc. A navy ship in the bay sprayed SF with a 'simulated' BW agent ( Serratia marcescens - If I remember correctly ). This was not designed to hurt people but to see the spread of an aerosolized agent in a real city. Monitoring collectors were set up all over the city including in schools etc. Several days after the spraying started, in one hospital ( connected with Stanford I think ), where there was a ward with a number of catheterized men, some dozen or so men became seriously ill with Serratia infections, and 2 died. There was never a case of Serratia infection before this time. The military people conducting the experiment did not inform the hospital physicians even after the men became ill! - Carl