Incredibly, the same bacteria was behind a 2001 outbreak at a Walnut Creek pharmacy that killed three people.
Seventy-two years ago this month, a San Francisco man checked back into a local hospital after his recent prostate surgery, setting off a chain of events that revealed the existence of a covert U.S. military test conducted in the Bay Area.
The Navy and Army conducted “Operation Sea-Spray” between Sept. 20 and Sept. 27, 1950, a full 31 years before then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein inaugurated Fleet Week as an annual event in The City honoring the country’s armed services at sea. Blue Angels cancel last Fleet Week show for most S.F. reason The most distinctive fixture of San Francisco's skyline grounded the Blue Angels ahead of their final Fleet Week performance
Part of the fog covering San Francisco that September week was actually a bacterial cloud, which also blanketed a number of surrounding cities in the Bay Area, according to a series of subsequently declassified military reports. Nevin and 10 other Stanford patients had similar infections, which subsequent tests determined were all caused by Serratia marcescens. The 75-year-old was the only patient who died.
{p dir=”ltr”}{span}Military officials didn’t acknowledge the test at all until 1976, when Newsday first reported in December of that year about Nevin’s death following the tests. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote its own story, which two of Nevin’s grandchildren — a Berkeley lawyer and a San Francisco police inspector, respectively — read, prompting the family to later file an $11 million lawsuit against the Army, Navy, defense department and the government for damages.
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