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To: maried. who wrote (4602)	11/25/2001 6:52:48 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Shades of Stella Nickell. Is there any information about whether the anthrax that killed the Connecticut woman was identical to the anthrax that was delivered to Daschle and others? That would be interesting to know.

To: maried. who wrote (4602)	11/25/2001 6:58:45 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

I had in mind the list of "holes" in the tracking of this product. Plenty of fodder for those who were suspicious of the plane crash investigation. For example: Once thought to be accessible to thousands of researchers, the strain [Ames] now appears to have circulated in only a small universe of laboratories. ------------------------------ In following the trail, investigators have had to face the possibility that Ames may have slipped through an informal network of scientists to Iraq ------------------------------ we were doing a lot of work with academia and studying the variant strains. Things just weren't as tight as they became" after new federal security guidelines on transfers went into effect in the late 1990s. ------------------------------ "They kept the stuff there, and if you needed a culture, you called up Art" -- Col. Arthur Friedlander, USAMRIID's senior military research scientist ------------------------------ Genetic differences among anthrax strains are slight, and until the advent of genetic typing in recent years, the labeling of strains was often sloppy. It is possible that Ames bacteria ended up in many other laboratories, but under a different name. ------------------------------ Of the seven strains sent to Iraq by the American Type Culture Collection in the late 1980s, for example, none was labeled "Ames." But Kimothy L. Smith, a member of Keim's genetic analysis team that reportedly has been helping the FBI investigation, said he did not believe that all the strains sent to Iraq had been studied and compared to known varieties. Not a neat and tidy picture. Karen