The military’s bacterial tests likely caused a cluster of infections in San Francisco.

Evidence

The government said that the sudden, unprecedented appearance of a cluster of Serratia marcescens infections, never seen before or after, occurring just after the Army-Navy-CIA nozzle-fogging, was entirely coincidental. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 261

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 261
• XREF: connects to: Scientists conducted covert biological warfare tests in San Francisco in 1950. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 258; Serratia marcescens caused infections and at least one death in San Francisco. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 259