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Article: Additive Made Spores Deadlier; 3 Nations Known to Be Able to Make Sophisticated Coating
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- The Washington Post
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- October 25, 2001
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The anthrax spores that contaminated the air in Senate Majority
Leader Thomas A. Daschle's office had been treated with a chemical
additive so sophisticated that only three nations are thought to have
been capable of making it, sources said yesterday.
The United States, the former Soviet Union and Iraq are the only
three nations known to have developed the kind of additives that
enable anthrax spores to remain suspended in the air, making them
more easily inhaled and therefore more deadly, experts said
yesterday. Each nation used a different technique, suggesting that
ongoing microscopic and chemical analyses may reveal more about the
spores' provenance than did their genetic analysis, ...