Sentences with phrase «because anthrax»

Because anthrax is so hardy, it's no surprise that it could survive in permafrost.

Because the anthrax was not properly killed, workers who received materials from that laboratory may have been unintentionally exposed to the deadly pathogen.

Keim says anthrax terrifies our scientists more than plague because anthrax spores remain indestructible for long periods of time.

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That's because a trial like this one is almost without precedent in modern medical research: It involves giving children a vaccine that is almost certain not to benefit them, and that might harm them, all to protect other children from an unlikely scenario — a large - scale anthrax attack.

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.

Biosecurity slip - ups in US labs handling anthrax and smallpox happened because of lack of oversight and failure to follow protocol, says new report

Each point represents one individual donor and is averaged from 25 — 75 sequences, except for the primary response to anthrax from which only 10 VH genes could be cloned from single cells because of the highly limited response.

In the United States, anthrax occasionally pops up along the cattle trails of the Old West, Stewart said, because cows stricken with anthrax were left to rot.

People were afraid to open envelopes because of the anthrax scares.

The camping site on the Chobe river is closed because of the occurrence of anthrax among buffalo, elephants and impalas in the north of Chobe park.