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Published: 11/11/10

Lax Security at Ugandan Anthrax Labs Poses US Security Threat

By  Steven Hoffer - AOL News
Lax Security at Ugandan Anthrax Labs Poses US Security Threat

(Nov. 11) -- Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana visited Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries on Wednesday as part of a three-country tour of East Africa assessing the "next generation" of threats to American security, according to The New York Times. The ministry's laboratories and other similar facilities in the region are a U.S. security concern because they present an easy target for terrorist organizations to obtain virus samples like anthrax, Ebola and Marburg, as well as other dangerous materials. Security at the facilities is described as lax at best, with ...

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Published: 09/7/10

Biotech Lab in Malaysia Raises Security Concerns, Despite U.S. Connection

By  Christopher Weber - Politics Daily
Biotech Lab in Malaysia Raises Security Concerns, Despite U.S. Connection

A ProPublica investigation published Tuesday raises concerns about a biotech laboratory being built in Malaysia that will handle deadly pathogens such as anthrax, plague, SARS and the Ebola virus. The stated mission of lab, developed by the Malaysian government with the Maryland-based firm Emergent BioSolutions, is to produce vaccines against fatal and contagious agents that could be used in terrorist attacks. But critics worry that the facility could be used for offensive, instead of defensive, purposes in a country that has been tied to several terrorist plots over the past decade. They ...

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Published: 08/16/10

Mass Hippo Deaths Caused by Unlikely Culprit: Anthrax

By  Kathryn Yao - AOL News
Mass Hippo Deaths Caused by Unlikely Culprit: Anthrax

(Aug. 16) -- Another hippopotamus at a Ugandan safari park has died, bringing the death toll to 83 since June. Stranger still is the cause of the massive pachyderm massacre: anthrax poisoning, the London Daily Telegraph reports. Besides being a powdery biological weapon that grabbed headlines in the perilous week following the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks (when some was mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, among others), anthrax is also a soil-dwelling bacteria -- bacillus anthracis bacterium -- that is clearly harmful to both humans and animals alike. Symptoms of infection can ...

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Published: 02/19/10

FBI Closes Anthrax-Letters Case After 10,000 Interviews

By  Christopher Weber - Politics Daily
FBI Closes Anthrax-Letters Case After 10,000 Interviews

The FBI has closed its investigation into the case of the Army microbiologist believed to be responsible for mailing anthrax-laced letters that killed five people and injured dozens of others in 2001. In announcing Friday that the investigation was over, the bureau released a report detailing the evidence against Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, a researcher at the Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., The New York Times reported. Ivins killed himself in 2008, as federal prosecutors were preparing to charge him with using a weapon of mass destruction. The FBI report, ...

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