Anthrax bungle sees more labs receive US shipments than first thought

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http://www.dw.de/anthrax-bungle-sees-more-labs-receive-us-shipments-than-first-thought/a-18486963

More laboratories received live anthrax from a US military facility than first thought, including in Australia. A review of how the bacteria is handled has been announced.

Anthrax bungle sees more labs receive US shipments than first thought
30.05.2015

The Pentagon has acknowledged that laboratories in Australia and South Korea as well as 11 US states, two more than it first acknowledged, received "suspect samples" of live anthrax. It had previously only identified a foreign shipment to a US air base south of Seoul.

The anthrax shipments appear to have come from Dugway Proving Grounds, a Defense Department laboratory in Utah, where the samples were irradiated and supposedly rendered "dead."

On Friday, a private firm in Maryland notified authorities that its sample was still active. As a result there was a review of all material sent out to other labs.

The 17 other laboratories, including one at the US Osan Air Force Base in South Korea, received samples from the same batch and were therefore likely to also be live, the Pentagon and the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said.