A new subject of anthrax probe

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His father said Berry became a born-again Christian at 14 and spent time in a seminary. He was drawn to medicine after volunteering in a Danbury, Conn., hospital.


Berry was charged in 1999, the same year his organization PREEMPT (Planned Response Exercises and Emergency Medical Preparedness Training) staged its third annual biodefense conference.

"The overall general consensus insists it is not a question of if it's going to happen, but when," Berry said, according to a transcript on his Web site. That same year Berry called for anthrax vaccines and proposed a training program for 200,000 first responders.

Between March 1999 and September 2001, Berry applied for — and would receive — three patents related to bioterrorism. One was for an automated system of sensors to seal a building against biochemical attack.

Another, for a system to identify attacks over a wide area, was filed only days after the first anthrax letters were processed at a Hamilton Township, N.J., post office in September 2001.
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