No matter when that was printed it scares the heck out of me!!
I somehow doubt Canada's claims to have enough vaccine stockpiled for everyone. BTW, there is no vaccine for bird flu and they have already found a resistant strain to Tamiflu. I wonder if Dr's would prescribe Tamiflu to someone who just wanted to have it on hand?
I know just what you mean (and this is our own government): witness:
Cities were unwittingly used as laboratories to test aerosolization and dispersal methods; Aspergillus fumigatus, B. subtilis var. globigii, and Serratia marcescens were used as simulants and released during experiments in New York City, San Francisco, and other sites. Concerns regarding potential public health hazards of simulant studies were raised after an outbreak of nosocomial S. marcescens (formerly Chromobacterium prodigiosum) urinary tract infections at Stanford University Hospital between September 1950 and February 1951, following covert experiments using S. marcescens as a simulant in San Francisco.