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The Rajneeshee Bioterror Attack
The Dalles, Oregon, United StatesSeptember 9, 1984
In September and October 1984, followers of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh contaminated salad bars at ten restaurants in The Dalles, Oregon, with salmonella bacteria in an attempt to incapacitate voters ahead of a local election they hoped to influence. The attack sickened 751 people in the first major bioterrorist attack in U.S. history. Two cult leaders, Ma Anand Sheela and Ma Anand Puja, were convicted and sentenced to prison. The cult's story was dramatized in the Netflix documentary "Wild Wild Country."