Pentagon Inadvertently Shipped Live Anthrax to Labs in Nine States

[PeaceNikki]

The Pentagon confirmed today that samples of live anthrax were inadvertently shipped to private research laboratories in nine states that were supposed to have received dead anthrax samples.

There is no known risk to the general public and there have been no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection as a result of the inadvertent shipment, officials said.

"The Department of Defense is collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their investigation of the inadvertent transfer of samples containing live Bacillus anthracis, also known as anthrax, from a DoD lab in Dugway Utah, to labs in nine states,” said Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

"There is no known risk to the general public, and there are no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection in potentially exposed lab workers," he added. "The DoD lab was working as part of a DoD effort to develop a field-based test to identify biological threats in the environment. Out of an abundance of caution, DoD has stopped the shipment of this material from its labs pending completion of the investigation. "

Last week, the samples were shipped from the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah via a commercial shipper to eight companies with laboratories in nine states: California, Texas, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey and New York.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-inadvertently-shipped-live-anthrax-labs-states/story?id=31346018

Omg, FOX news is going to lose its shit.

Thanks Obama!

[Takket]

1. one of the samples was also sent to South Korea

Which begs the question.... why are we sending anthrax, alive OR dead, to South Korea?