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Rajneeshee Bioterror Attack2024 Feb 12
In September 1984, there was an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, where at least 751 cases were confirmed. This, in a community numbering only in the 10s of thousands, was massive in scale. The CDC blamed poor food handling practices. It was only a year later, when the FBI was investigating the nearby cult Rajneeshee that they discovered, in a lab on the cult's compound, vials carrying organisms identical to the outbreak strain that authorities understood the salmonella outbreak to in fact be bioterrorism, the first and most successful major such attack in our country's history. That this incident is so little-known baffles me.
In September 1984, there was an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning in The Dalles, Oregon, where at least 751 cases were confirmed. This, in a community numbering only in the 10s of thousands, was massive in scale. The CDC blamed poor food handling practices. It was only a year later, when the FBI was investigating the nearby cult Rajneeshee that they discovered, in a lab on the cult's compound, vials carrying organisms identical to the outbreak strain that authorities understood the salmonella outbreak to in fact be bioterrorism, the first and most successful major such attack in our country's history. That this incident is so little-known baffles me.