Sentences with phrase «when anthrax»

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

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In this collection, the standard Ames strain is the one the US used when it produced anthrax weapons, a programme which ended in 1969.

When envelopes containing the bacterial spores that cause anthrax started arriving in media offices and on Capitol Hill in the fall of 2001, a new era in biological warfare began.

When the waters vanished around Vozrozhdeniya Island, a Soviet germ - warfare facility for open - air testing of anthrax, plague, and smallpox in the southern Aral Sea, U.S. officials in 2000 became so worried that they sent funds and experts to clean up buried stockpiles of the remaining lethal bacteria.

Safety lapses in CDC labs captured headlines in 2014 when scientists at a high - level biosecurity lab did not properly inactivate anthrax bacteria before sending the material to labs with fewer safeguards.

When the team immersed the setup in a beaker containing the target DNA, the chip - bound DNA yanked the target strands out of solution, filling the space between the electrodes with a patchy lawn of anthrax DNA.

The problem began about 3 months ago when a Frederick, Maryland, lab supplier shipped an anthrax sample that it thought had been heat - killed.

For an example of how this might work go back to the 9/11 time frame when we had anthrax in the Capitol Building offices.

CDC's actions follow an incident last month in which up to 75 CDC workers were potentially exposed to anthrax when samples thought to be dead proved to be live.

When a worker engages in a lab procedure, say boiling an anthrax sample, he or she presses a button on the camera to record everything.

When other scientists became skeptical of the plague and anthrax findings, the original scientists performed follow - up tests and analyses.

Education legislation faced another delay last week when concerns over anthrax contamination on Capitol Hill, which prompted the House to shut down for several days, led lawmakers to abruptly cancel a meeting on the bill.

When a genetically engineered strain of anthrax with exceptional potency is released at San Quentin State Prison, Stone quickly becomes both the prime suspect in the terror attack and the FBI's best hope for stopping an imminent national catastrophe.

It can also release long - buried microbes, as in a 2016 case when a cache of buried reindeer carcasses thawed and caused an outbreak of anthrax.

But already last year, a boy was killed and 20 others infected by anthrax released when retreating permafrost exposed the frozen carcass of a reindeer killed by the bacteria at least 75 years earlier; 2,000 present - day reindeer were infected, too, carrying and spreading the disease beyond the tundra.

This is like anthrax combined with swine flu when it comes to threats.