http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49502-2001Dec15.html
Capitol Hill Anthrax Matches Army's Stocks
5 Labs Can Trace Spores to Ft. Detrick
By Rick Weiss and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, December 16, 2001; Page A01
Genetic fingerprinting studies indicate that the anthrax spores mailed
to Capitol Hill are identical to stocks of the deadly bacteria
maintained by the U.S. Army since 1980, according to scientists
familiar with the most recent tests.
Although many laboratories possess the Ames strain of anthrax involved
in this fall's bioterrorist attacks, only five laboratories so far
have been found to have spores with perfect genetic matches to those
in the Senate letters, the scientists said. And all those labs can
trace back their samples to a single U.S. military source: the U.S.
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at
Fort Detrick, Md.
"That means the original source [of the terrorist material] had to
have been USAMRIID," said one of the scientists.
[...]
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