Live anthrax found in shipment to Australia:

US | Fri May 29, 2015 1:56pm EDT
Related: U.S., Health, Australia

Live anthrax found in U.S. military shipment to Australia: official

WASHINGTON | By Phil Stewart


An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday.

The disclosure, if confirmed, suggests the possibility of a broader problem among anthrax samples meant to have been made inactive at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.

Suspected live samples sourced to Dugway have already been traced going to nine U.S. states and a U.S. air base in South Korea over a period from March 2014 to April 2015 before being discovered this month.


The U.S. military says there are no known suspected infections or risks to the general public. Four U.S. civilians have begun taking preventive measures that usually include the anthrax vaccine, antibiotics or both.

Twenty-two people at the base in South Korea were also given precautionary medical measures although none of them has shown signs of exposure.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun an investigation.

Little is known about the sample sent to Australia, including the type of laboratory that received it. The U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the sample was tested after the latest disclosure as part of the ongoing investigation into the handling of anthrax samples.

The Pentagon declined comment, saying it was trying to gather facts.

It was unclear how many other samples from Dugway have been tested or what the results of those tests are.

On Thursday, the Army's top general said human error probably was not the cause, saying preliminary information suggested U.S. personnel at Dugway appeared to correctly follow official procedures.

The Pentagon was more cautious on Friday.

"There is an ongoing investigation and we need to let this develop," said Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/29/us-usa-military-anthrax-idUSKBN0OE1ZM20150529

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U.S. military lab shipped live anthrax samples to Canada -USA Today


Reuters - 13 hrs ago

Live anthrax samples were shipped to three laboratories in Canada by a U.S. military lab, USA Today reported on Monday, following disclosures last week that samples of the bacteria were mistakenly sent to 11 U.S. states and two other countries.

The newspaper cited two Defense Department officials as saying the samples sent to Canada came from the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, where the other samples appear to trace back to as well. It is one of the U.S. military labs responsible for inactivation and shipping of biological material.

The Pentagon had no immediate comment on the report.

The U.S. military said on Friday a total of 11 states had received "suspect samples," as did Australia and a U.S. air base in South Korea. It ordered a sweeping review of practices meant to inactivate the potentially deadly bacteria.

It advised all laboratories for now to stop working with any "inactive" samples sent from the Defense Department.

To date, the United States has acknowledged that four U.S. civilians have begun taking preventive measures that usually include the anthrax vaccine, antibiotics or both.

Twenty-two people at the base in South Korea were also given precautionary medical measures, although none had shown signs of exposure. (Reporting by Peter Cooney; Additional reporting by Phil Stewart)

Pentagon sends anthrax to itself ?

Anthrax Found in the Pentagon

ht tp://www.thedailybeast.com/article…hrax-went.html

and these are the guys with their fingers on the button ???

they ain't through yet !!!

Scores of labs may have received live anthrax samples from Army facility

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83692646/

This is why I'm firmly against GOF experiments! Sooner or later someone, somewhere will do something stupid and kill millions.

U.S. Pentagon officials say hundreds of anthrax vials have been shipped out

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/officials-say-anthrax-not-properly-killed-in-army-lab-was-sent-to-dozens-of-locations/article24773614/


"Perhaps over as long as a decade,,,"

ten freaking years !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!