Word: anthrax
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...officials announced that tests done on a suspicious piece of mail found there Tuesday had proved negative for anthrax...
According to a MIT press release, officials at the Massachusetts State Laboratory in Jamaica Plain carried out tests yesterday which showed that the powder tested negative for the anthrax bacterium...
...acts from members of bin Laden’s network, which is believed to include thousands of members spread throughout dozens of countries, are simply not that difficult to undertake. It is as easy as a well-placed sniper, a car filled with homemade explosives or an envelope of anthrax. Even U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits, “You cannot defend at every place, at every time, against every conceivable, imaginable—even unimaginable—terrorist attack...
...order to determine if a substance is anthrax, scientists need to test for 48 hours...
...first glance it looks like the greatest marketing coup of all time: In the midst of escalating public anxiety about anthrax, one pharmaceutical company looks set to rake in huge profits from its superstar antibiotic, Cipro, which also happens to be the only FDA-approved treatment for inhalational anthrax...