THE cases just keep coming. Yet it’s still not clear who’s to blame for the anthrax attacks, or whether there will be more. With little official information so far about the nature and origin of the anthrax, claims and counter-claims have been flying.
Prominent voices in the US charge that the anthrax is so sophisticated it can only have been produced with the backing of a government. Their suspicions are directed at Iraq, which is known to have made anthrax and other bioweapons.
But New Scientist can reveal that the bacteria used in the attacks is not a strain that…
