Sickdog, there is a facility, a large medical research operation, a secret within a highly restricted and guarded confines of Fort Detrick, Maryland that study the infections, drugs, virus’ etc., etc. I visited the operation when I was going through a CI/CE course at the intelligence school before it moved from Fort Holabird, MD to Fort Huachuca, AZ. Suffice it to say, the effects of poisons, poison gasses, illicit drugs (remember LSD?), infections, etc.etc.... It was both eye opening and disturbing. Later, I was a commanding officer of a fairly large intelligence unit in the late 1960s (this was the age of the draft and forced military service). I had several of my charges come to me for advice. The army was running out of prison volunteers from Fort Leavenworth and other prisons for the important tests in the facility. My charges were told they could get early honorable discharges if they volunteered for medical tests at Fort Detrick, the tests would be administered and studied for up to 2 months but allow for the discharge from the service up to one year early. My advice was to think hard about the ‘test’ and if it was worth the gamble of getting out of the military early but with the risk of something being injected into their bodies or, breathing in gasses or viruses that might be within them for a life time. Google Fort Derrick, there may be more information if you’re curious. John