USA Today reported that a CDC study found that anthrax spore killing had not been standardized using control spore samples at Dugway. Tests of different spore concentrations and volumes had not been tested against different radiation doses to ascertain the degree of lethality of the process under varying conditions. It seems remarkable to me that…
From the Washington Times: Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming beasts of its own…
On June 9, two weeks since this story first burst forth, we are up to 68 labs that likely got some live anthrax from Dugway. And another country has been added, the UK. If the story is accurate as told so far, what probably happened is that there was incomplete inactivation due to inadequate doses…
I will be writing more about the US DoD assertion that up to 66 laboratories in 19 states, the District of Columbia and three countries (Australia, South Korea and Canada) received live anthrax spores by mistake from an Army lab at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. The June 4 WSJ (behind a paywall) says the problem…
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