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Secret Reports: With Security Spotty, Many Had Access to Anthrax

(ProPublica) A sign on the door of a Biosafety Level-4 laboratory at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Md. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo) by Greg Gordon, McClatchy, and Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica Oct. 24, 2011, …

October 25, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biological Weapons, Bioterrorism, and Research
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Kit to detect Anthrax developed

(IBNLive.com) The DRDE, Gwalior, has developed a rapid ELISA kit for the detection of B Anthracis (AnthroDec) targeting Protective Antigen (PA) component of Anthrax toxin. Evaluation undertaken by WHO SARO in 2002 concluded that the kit had fairly high sensitivity …

October 24, 2011
| Filed under South Asia, Agents & Toxins, Biotechnology, and Public Health
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Lab Fight Raises US Security Issues

(New York Times) Synthetic biology — which includes the development of fuels, organ tissue and tumor-destroying bacteria — became a focus of government and law enforcement agencies after 9/11 and the anthrax attacks that quickly followed it. …

October 24, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Biosafety, Biotechnology, Policy & Initiatives, and Research
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New questions about FBI anthrax inquiry deserve scrutiny

(Washington Post) BRUCE E. IVINS has been dead for three years, but questions still abound about whether he carried out the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people and seriously sickened 17 others. The FBI compiled what appeared to be an overwhelming case against …

October 24, 2011
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, and Bioterrorism
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Postal workers mark 10 years since anthrax attacks

(Washington Post) Postal workers mark 10 years since anthrax attacksWashington Post (blog)By Ed O'Keefe Postal employees Thomas Morris Jr., left, and Joseph Curseen Jr., right, died in Oct. 2001 from exposure to anthrax. Employees of the US Postal Service plan to mark the 10th anniversary of the anthrax mail attacks and the deaths of two Read More »