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Bruce Edwards Ivins (/ ˈ aɪ v ɪ n z /; 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 correctly identified by the FBI of the 2001 anthrax attacks. [2]
In what appears to have been a response to lingering skepticism, on September 16, 2008, the FBI asked the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to conduct an independent review of the scientific evidence that led the agency to implicate U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001. [9]
For help, they turned to the US Department of Defense lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where anthrax expert Dr. Bruce Ivins worked. By summer of 2002, the investigation had zeroed in on a main suspect.
2001 anthrax attacks: Bacillus anthracis: 5 17 United States: Letters laced with infectious anthrax were concurrently delivered to news media offices and the U.S Congress, alongside an ambiguously related case in Chile. The letters killed 5. Bruce Edwards Ivins [6] 2003 2003 ricin letters: Ricin: 0 0 United States
Clark Gregg starred in the film as Bruce Edwards Ivins, the microbiologist and vaccinologist who became central to the case. [3] [2] According to a title card in the film, Gregg's dialogues are taken directly from Ivins's emails. [4]
Daniel Dae Kim and Tony Goldwyn face off in NatGeo's The Hot Zone: Anthrax. The upcoming six-hour miniseries dramatizes the events of 2001 post-Sept. 11 with the U.S. facing a new threat ...
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The FBI obtained some of the anthrax spores and analyzed them. After analyzing the spores, the FBI traced the spores to a military lab located at Fort Detrick, Maryland. [1] Ivins quickly became a suspect in the investigation. The FBI began to suspect Ivins when they noticed he had logged in many late-night hours right before the attacks. [12]