This weekend marks the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. It was just a week after that that letters containing deadly highly purified anthrax spores were sent out to several media outlets in New York City. Those letters were followed up with similar letters to Senators Leahy and Daschle in Washington, DC.
The anthrax spores were so easily spread that postal workers employed in the post offices which handles the letters began contracting anthrax. One woman in Connecticut died after a letter she received from an unrelated source simply came into contact with one of the anthrax letters. In all 5 died, more than 30 were infected, and thousands were medicated as a precaution.
I recently spoke to one of the people responsible for sequencing the genome of the anthrax spores used in the attack to determine its origin for the FBI. I asked her to talk about the investigation and whether we are safer today because of new precautions put in place after those anthrax attacks in 2001. Read the interviews at the following links:
The anthrax spores were so easily spread that postal workers employed in the post offices which handles the letters began contracting anthrax. One woman in Connecticut died after a letter she received from an unrelated source simply came into contact with one of the anthrax letters. In all 5 died, more than 30 were infected, and thousands were medicated as a precaution.
I recently spoke to one of the people responsible for sequencing the genome of the anthrax spores used in the attack to determine its origin for the FBI. I asked her to talk about the investigation and whether we are safer today because of new precautions put in place after those anthrax attacks in 2001. Read the interviews at the following links:
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