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Fort Detrick anthrax case shows homegrown threat is biggest bioterrorism concern

After 9/11, much-publicized anthrax attacks on Congress and the media set off massive new spending in biodefense research. But in retrospect, that decision funneled money precisely to those most likely to infect US civilians, either intentionally or by accident.As exhibit one in making that case, this week a top US Army bioterrorism specialist killed himself after learning he would be prosecuted over the 2001 anthrax attacks. Reports the London Daily Mail: Biodefence researcher Bruce Ivins, 62, had been warned about the impending prosecution shortly before his death on Tuesday after swallowing a massive dose of painkillers. He had worked for the past 18 years at the U.S. government's biodefence laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The laboratory has been at the centre of the FBI's investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 01, 2008 (boomark / email).