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... terrorists who sought to incapacitate rather than kill a large number of people might use a non-lethal biological agent. In 1984, for example, the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon contaminated restaurant salad bars in the town of The Dalles with Salmonella typhimurium (food-poisoning) bacteria in a plot to sicken local residents and influence the outcome of a county election.
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Although the U.S. government has expressed growing concern about potential biological terrorist attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has documented only one successful incident of bioterrorism. In August and September 1984 a religious cult known as the Rajneeshees employed biological agents against the inhabitants of a small town in Oregon, sickening 751 people.
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The single U.S. case involving the actual use of biological agents occurred in September 1984, when members of the Rajneeshee cult in Oregon poisoned salad bars with Salmonella typhimurium.
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Terrorists have used bioweapons before. In 1984, the U.S.-based Rajneeshee cult used salmonella bacteria to poison citizens by spreading the bacteria via salad bars in restaurants in an Oregon town.
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