INVESTIGATORS in the US are analysing samples of anthrax stocks held by
research labs in a bid to identify the source of the bioterrorist attacks that
have killed five Americans.
The hunt is now focusing on labs in the US from which those responsible for
the attacks may have obtained the bacteria. Officials had said that too many
labs held samples of the Ames strain used in the attacks to narrow down the
source.
Now researchers say the particular variant of Ames used in the attacks was
held primarily by the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases
in…
