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In September 2001, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. Senators, killing five people and infecting 17 others. Of those infected, 11 developed cutaneous anthrax, while 11 developed inhalation anthrax. 20 of the 22 infected worked at a site where contaminated mail was handled or received. [7]
The 2001 anthrax attacks, also known as Amerithrax (a portmanteau of "America" and "anthrax", from its FBI case name), [ 2] occurred in the United States over the course of several weeks beginning on September 18, 2001, one week after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices ...
Bruce Edwards Ivins ( / ˈaɪvɪnz /; April 22, 1946 – July 29, 2008) [ 1] was an American microbiologist, vaccinologist, [ 1] senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), Fort Detrick, Maryland, and the person suspected by the FBI of the 2001 anthrax attacks. [ 2]
Editor’s Note: A new episode of the CNN Original Series “How It Really Happened” spotlights the terrifying anthrax attacks that followed Sept. 11, 2001, taking viewers inside one of the ...
Sverdlovsk anthrax leak. On 2 April 1979, spores of Bacillus anthracis (the causative agent of anthrax) were accidentally released from a Soviet military research facility in the city of Sverdlovsk, Soviet Union (now Yekaterinburg, Russia ). The ensuing outbreak of the disease resulted in the deaths of at least 68 people, although the exact ...
Five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease, with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year, the World Health Organization said ...
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Anthrax is an infection caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. [ 2 ] Infection typically occurs by contact with the skin, inhalation, or intestinal absorption. [ 9 ] Symptom onset occurs between one day and more than two months after the infection is contracted. [ 1 ]