Two labs confirmed Pentagon anthrax

[G_j]

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050321-123223-7231r

Two labs confirmed Pentagon anthrax
By Dee Ann Divis

UPI Senior Science & Technology Editor
Published March 21, 2005


WASHINGTON -- Anthrax was confirmed twice in samples collected from a Pentagon mail facility initially closed last week and then opened after being declared free of the pathogen, United Press International has learned.

The head of the company that was accused of contaminating the samples sent from that facility -- a detached building on the Pentagon grounds in Arlington, Va. - said his company had never had a false positive test before and the presence of anthrax was detected independently in the original samples by two government laboratories besides his own.

The Pentagon alarm is distinct from a second alert for anthrax that also occurred March 14 at a mail room in a Defense Department-leased building in Falls Church, Va. The entire three-building complex was closed for two days before being declared clean.

Robert B. Harris, president and chief executive officer of Commonwealth Biotechnologies Inc. in Richmond, Va., also said the anthrax found at the Pentagon was the same genetic strain used in the 2001 attacks.


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[papau]

1. Either a test of the Alarm system - or the orginal lab in the Pentagon was

sending more mail to Democratic Senators.

[WoodrowFan]

2. interesting story, but

do I need to worry that UPI is now owned by the Rev. Moon???

http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif74.html

[Wilms]

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