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Pentagon Sends Out Live Anthrax to Nine States By Accident
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28.05.2015
In an extraordinary admission, the Pentagon has conceded that it inadvertently shipped live anthrax spores to as many as nine laboratories and is investigating how that happened.
The labs were supposed to receive dead – or inactivated – anthrax samples for research use.
Spokesman Colonel Steve Warren says the Pentagon is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to retrieve the samples.
He says the government has confirmed one shipment contained live spores and suspects eight others did, too.
Pentagon officials would not say more about when the shipment occurred, who was the official responsible nor how inadvertent it was, given that the shipment appeared from Warren’s account to be part of a bioweapon detection initiative.
The labs were supposed to receive dead – or inactivated – anthrax samples for research use.
Spokesman Colonel Steve Warren says the Pentagon is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to retrieve the samples.
He says the government has confirmed one shipment contained live spores and suspects eight others did, too.
Pentagon officials would not say more about when the shipment occurred, who was the official responsible nor how inadvertent it was, given that the shipment appeared from Warren’s account to be part of a bioweapon detection initiative.
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