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http://www.cosmiverse.com/paranormal12040101.html
quote:The nation's ability to combat the current anthrax outbreak and its continuing threat comes at a great and terrible price to hundreds of volunteers who served in the US Army during 1954 to 1973. Without their consent, they were exposed to diseases during their military service as part of biological warfare testing.
The unlucky servicemen were all Seventh Day Adventists, chosen because their religious beliefs require the devout to abstain from smoking, drinking alcohol or coffee. The Army believed that this would allow them to get a more accurate picture of the effect of the drug on their system.
The program was called, "Operation Whitecoat" took the information gained from their study of the otherwise healthy, white men and applied it as the foundation of today's biological warfare program that we have today. According to an Army immunologist, it is this information that has proved so vital during the current crisis.
No life-threatening diseases were transmitted but some debilitating ones were, such as the mosquito-borne sand fly fever. Researchers also tested a vaccine for Eastern encephalitis. Although no one died during the operation, the Army is now conducting a study of the long-term effects on nearly a thousand of the volunteers they have been able to locate.
Source: AFP
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