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Anthrax scare in Washington D.C.
Nick Rees/BioPrepWatch
Work ground to a halt at the offices of the American Psychological Association on Tuesday following the discovery of a letter filled with a white, powdery substance.
Police were called to the building near Union Station at 1 p.m. after the powdery substance fell from an envelope.
“There was a note that said, ‘This is anthrax,’” [...]
Hazmat crews respond to Utah IRS office
Two people removed on stretchers; decontamination showers deployed
MSNBC
OGDEN, Utah – Hazardous materials crews and the FBI were on the scene Monday at the IRS building in Ogden, Utah, where several people were subjected to decontamination showers.
Two people were taken out of the building on stretchers for “medical emergencies,” but their conditions “do not appear to [...]
Denver man charged in white powder mailings
9News
DENVER – FBI agents have arrested a Denver area man suspected of sending white powder to multiple governmental offices including the offices for U.S. Senators Mark Udall (D-CO) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) and the local office of Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora.)
The suspect, Jay DeVaugn, of Denver, faces a federal charge of mailing threatening communication.
Many details [...]
The F.B.I.’s Anthrax Case
NYT
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a report that is supposed to clinch the case that a lone scientist mailed anthrax-laced letters in 2001, terrorizing a country already traumatized by the 9/11 attacks. The agency cites voluminous circumstantial evidence that is largely persuasive, but its report leaves too many loose ends to be taken [...]
Unsolved Anthrax Case to be Closed Today
emptywheel/Firedoglake
19 Feb 2010
Though DOJ will presumably insist that Ivins did it.
The FBI is expected to issue a final report today on its six-year investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks, according to the attorney representing former Frederick resident Bruce Ivins, a Fort Detrick scientist accused of planning and carrying out the attacks that killed five [...]
Anthrax found in London heroin user
BBC
A heroin user in London has tested positive for anthrax, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has announced.
The case is the first in England linked to the Class A drug, but follows the deaths of nine users in Scotland from anthrax infection.
The HPA said the unnamed user was being treated in a London hospital and that [...]
France alarmed over anthrax-tainted heroin in Europe
(AFP)
PARIS — The French health ministry issued a warning on Tuesday after eight people died and seven fell sick in two European countries from using heroin contaminated by anthrax.
“Since December 6, there have been 15 confirmed cases of anthrax among heroin users, 14 in Scotland and one in Germany,” the ministry’s General Directorate for Health [...]
Body Found on NY’s Plum Island, Disease Lab Site
NYT/AP
PLUM ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — A human body has washed ashore on New York’s tiny Plum Island, where a U.S. government lab studies dangerous animal diseases.
Police say a security guard discovered the clothed body Thursday afternoon on the island’s southwest beach area where access is restricted.
Police on Long Island say an autopsy found no immediate [...]
Public Menace-Private Profit: America’s Biowarfare Alliance
Antifascist Calling
In September, The New York Times reported that a University of Chicago researcher, Malcolm Casadaban, died after exposure to “a weakened and ordinarily harmless strain of the bacteria that cause plague.”
According to the Times, “Dr. Casadaban, an associate professor at the university, was studying the bacteria to create a better vaccine for plague … [...]
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FBI releases documents on Bruce Ivins