Live Anthrax Samples Mistakenly Sent Out by U.S. Defense Lab
Bacillus anthracis spores seen under phase contrast microscopy.
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A U.S. military laboratory in Utah inadvertently sent samples of live anthrax spores to military and commercial labs in nine states and an American air base in South Korea, a Pentagon official said.
The Pentagon is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “in an investigation of the inadvertent transfer of samples containing live anthrax,” Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Defense Department spokesman, said on Wednesday.