This week in Labor History September 20-27, 1950: The U.S. Navy sprayed Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii bacteria over the San Francisco Bay Area in an illegal biological weapons test. Two weeks later, 11 residents checked into Stanford Hospital with very rare and serious urinary tract bacterial infections. One of them died. There was also a spike in pneumonia cases and heart valve infections in San Francisco. The military never alerted local authorities about the test. There were numerous other similar attacks in Dorset, England, New York, Panama City, Key West, Minnesota, and Washington, D.C.’s national airport and Greyhound bus terminal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKWpiQO-7c
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