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Politics : Homeland Security

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To: Snowshoe who wrote (660)11/28/2001 1:22:06 AM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 827
 
New FBI Team Tackles Anthrax:
Two Women's 'Mystery' Cases of Infection to Be Reviewed
washingtonpost.com

By Jim McGee and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, November 28, 2001; Page A13

The FBI is also consulting with outside scientists to produce a list of labs known to have grown the Ames strain of anthrax, which investigators have identified in the five anthrax deaths so far. The FBI is assembling lists of current and former lab employees, seeking people who had access to the anthrax spores and the sophisticated knowledge required to mill them down to a fine, easily inhalable powder.

Officials now believe no more than a few hundred people in this country, at most, would fit that description, the sources said. The FBI is also compiling information on the equipment needed in the milling process, such as centrifuges and fermenters.
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