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Article: Anthrax Spores Found on Mail Sent to Chile From Zurich
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 23, 2001
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Chilean and U.S. officials confirmed today that a letter sent from
Switzerland to Chile was tainted with anthrax spores.
The letter containing the spores was received last week by a
pediatrician at a children's hospital in Santiago, the Chilean health
ministry said.
A health ministry statement said testing handled by the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed the presence
of Bacillus anthracis in an envelope received in Chile.
CDC spokeswoman Lisa Swenarski said the Atlanta-based agency had
asked the health department in Miami to test the samples from Chile
and that they had been confirmed as anthrax spores.
There have been several false alarms worldwide, including ...