This can help pinpoint the exact strain the unknown
anthrax came from.
Not exact matches
The implication of U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins in the 2001
anthrax letter attacks
came up several times during the Senate hearing.
The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee
came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved
anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.
Keim's study should allow scientists to tell whether any future
anthrax outbreak
came from a leftover Soviet weapon or some other source, Grunow says.
The latest incident
came to light as part of a dispatch from federal officials investigating the problems that led to some 75 federal employees» potential exposure to live
anthrax last month.
The
anthrax currently infecting reindeer and people in western Siberia likely
came from the carcass of a reindeer that died in an
anthrax outbreak 75 years ago and has been frozen ever since — until an unusually warm summer thawed permafrost across the region this year, according to local officials.
This is like
anthrax combined with swine flu when it
comes to threats.