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'One of the largest human experiments in history' was conducted on the unsuspecting residents of San Francisco



http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/one-of-the-largest-human-experiments-in-history-was-conducted-on-the-unsuspecting-residents-of-san-francisco/ar-AAcLRre?ocid=iehp


San Francisco's fog is famous, especially in the summer, when weather conditions combine to create the characteristic cooling blanket that sits over the Bay Area.

But one fact many may not know about San Francisco's fog is that in 1950, the US military conducted a test to see whether it could be used to help spread a biological weapon in a "simulated germ warfare attack." This was just the start of many such tests around the country that would go on in secret for years.

The test was a success, as Rebecca Kreston explains over at Discover Magazine, and also "one of the largest human experiments in history." But as she writes, it was also "one of the largest offenses of the Nuremberg Code since its inception." The code stipulates that "voluntary, informed consent" is required for research participants, and that experiments that might lead to death or disabling injury are unacceptable.

The unsuspecting residents of San Francisco certainly could not consent to the military's germ warfare test, and there's good evidence that it could have caused the death of at least one resident of the city, Edward Nevin, and hospitalized 10 others.

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It all began in late September of 1950, when over a few days, a Navy vessel used giant hoses to spray a fog of two kinds of bacteria, Serratia marcescens and Bacillus globigii â€" both believed at the time to be harmless â€" out into the fog, where they disappeared and spread over the city.

Well, that sounds like a fool-proof plan that couldn't possibly have any unforeseen consequences.  /sarcasm

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