Sentences with phrase «anthrax mailings»

Tyson also investigates how microbial forensics helped scientists determine the source of the anthrax mailings of 2001.

Ebright: The primary risks are accidental release through accidental infection of a lab worker who then infects others — for which there are many precedents — and deliberate release by a disturbed or disgruntled lab worker, for which the 2001 US anthrax mailings provide a precedent.

He believes that scientists, aware that they entered a new era after 11 September and the anthrax mail attacks, will welcome advice on how to prevent their work from being misused.

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The company did not suffer any fallout from the Florida anthrax cases, but Leveen harbors grave concerns for the future of direct mail.

There was an anthrax scare at three missions to the U.N. — turns out the mysterious powder mailed to the building was not toxic.

Next thing you know military grade anthrax will start being mailed to Larry Kudlow and Soledad O'Brien.

Over the course of 22 days, powderized anthrax — a potentially deadly bacterium — was mailed to U.S. Senate offices in Washington, D.C., and to media outlets in New York and Florida.

Overhyped microbes include anthrax (famous for the U.S. mail attacks in 2000), the Ebola and Marburg viruses (which can cause dramatic bleeding and high fever in their victims), and the prion agent of mad cow disease (otherwise known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE), which kills people by making their nervous systems degenerate.

B: We are more aware of the threats since September 11, 2001, and the following month, when anthrax was released in the mail.

Although the case never went to trial because of Ivins's suicide on 29 July 2008, FBI officials have claimed that the evidence against him is indisputable and that he carried out the mailings using anthrax stolen from a flask at USAMRIID.

The discovery took on greater significance in light of the September 11 attacks, with the ensuing fears of crop duster - borne pathogens and the swift, unexpected deaths from mail - distributed anthrax.

It's no surprise, then, that anthrax was used in the still - unsolved bioterror mailings that occurred in the weeks after 9/11.

Shortly after the 11 September 2001 attacks in New York City, anthrax powder was mailed to several politicians and journalists on the U.S. East Coast; 22 people were infected and five died.

Five years ago, hard on the heels of 9/11, someone sent anthrax spores through the US mail to journalists and politicians.

Officials then held a press conference to explain the science that helped identify the unique genetic signature of the mailed anthrax and trace it to a flask under Ivins's control (ScienceNOW, 18 August.)

The FBI contends that USAMRIID researcher Bruce Ivins was responsible for mailing the 2001 anthrax letters, including this one.

During the 2001 anthrax attacks, in which someone mailed anthrax spores to politicians and news media offices, 22 people were infected and five died.