Bacteria to be leased in Boston Subway - like the deadly 1950 release?

[monkeybird]

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/04/3...-mbta-tunnels/

What makes this especially alarming is that in the 1950's the Governments released a bacterial called serratia marcescens into the air to test wind currents. This bacteria was thought to be non pathogentic, merely a harmless red colored bacteria. The bacteria indeed WAS PATHOGENTIC and today is constitutes one of the most common infective agents in man. I studied this particular bacteria when I was getting my Infection Control Certification. Now here we are doing it again!

Because S. marcescens was thought to be a nonpathogen and is usually red pigmented, the U.S. military conducted experiments that attempted to ascertain the spread of this organism released over large areas. In the process, members of both the public and the military were exposed to S. marcescens, and this was uncovered by the press in the 1970s, leading to U.S. congressional hearings. S. marcescens was found to be a certain human pathogen by the mid-1960s. S. marcescens and S. liquefaciens have been isolated as causative agents of numerous outbreaks and opportunistic infections,

http://cmr.asm.org/content/24/4/755.abstract

[Pete]

Wow! That's a bit alarming! But a possible way for the gov't to wipe out the Occupy movement (if it were to work that way).

[rice paddy daddy]

The government has a long record of doing things like this to it's own people. But usually they confine it to unsuspecting military members.
Project 112, aka Project SHAD, come to mind. There are many many more that the average citizen would be shocked to learn about. Atomic radiation, experiments trying LSD as truth serum on unsuspecting soldiers, much more.
Here is a small item, straight from the Dept of Defense as an example

http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=3504