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Breaking News Fri, 29 May 2015
File - Hospital Corpsman 1st Class David Cano prepares a syringe with the anthrax vaccine for a Sailor aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington.
(photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Justin E. Yarborough)
US military mistakenly ships live anthrax to laboratories
The Irish Times
The US military mistakenly sent live anthrax bacteria to laboratories in nine US states and a US air base in South Korea, after apparently failing to properly inactivate the bacteria last year. | The Pentagon said there was no known suspected infection or risk to the public. But four US civilians ha...
US Military May Have Shipped Live Anthrax to Australia in 2008
ABC News
A review of operations at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah has found that another batch of live anthrax that was shipped to Australia in 2008, U.S. officials said today. | Like the previous batch mistakenly sent over the past year to 18 ...
Live anthrax mistakenly shipped to Australia by U.S. military: Official
Toronto Sun
WASHINGTON - An investigation of a U.S. military facility's mistaken shipments of live anthrax bacteria has turned up another live sample, this one from a 2008 batch sent to Australia, a U.S. defense official said on Friday. | The disclosure, if conf...
Austin lab received live anthrax spores
Austin American Statesman
A North Austin lab was among several labs around the country that received live anthrax samples mistakenly shipped by the U.S. Department of Defense. | Signature Science, a research firm on MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) near Steck Avenue, received contain...
26 Are Treated After Army’s Anthrax Mishap
U~T San Diego
WASHINGTON — At least 26 people are being treated for potential exposure to deadly anthrax after an Army biodefense facility in Utah mistakenly sent live samples to private and military laboratories in as many as nine states and South Korea, off...
Anthrax shipments came from military site in Utah desert
Philadelphia Daily News
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The U.S. Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples to government and commercial laboratories occurred at a military post in a desolate stretch of the Utah desert that has been testing chemical weapons since it opened in 1...
Anthrax shipments came from military site in Utah desert
Times Union
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples to government and commercial laboratories occurred at a military post in a desolate stretch of the Utah desert that has been testing chemical weapons since it opened in...
Anthrax shipments came from military site in Utah desert
Seattle Post
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples to government and commercial laboratories occurred at a military post in a desolate stretch of the Utah desert that has been testing chemical weapons since it opened in...
Pentagon reconsiders strategy in ISIS fight
Philadelphia Daily News
WASHINGTON - Pentagon leaders are trying to "fine tune" U.S. strategy for ousting the Islamic State group from Iraq, focusing on faster and better training and arming of Sunni tribes whose combat role is central to reversing the extremists'...
CDC investigating shipments of live anthrax to 9 states, South Korea
Denver Post
Microbiologist Ruth Bryan works in an airtight enclosure that is used for work with anthrax and other deadly agents. (Associated Press file) | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army's top general said Thursday that human error probably was not a factor in ...
CDC looks into error involving live anthrax
The Oklahoman
By ROBERT BURNS and BRADY McCOMBS • | WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army's top general said Thursday that human error probably was not a factor in the Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples from a chemical weapons testing site that was opene...
CDC investigating error that caused live anthrax shipments
Ohio
WASHINGTON: The U.S. Army’s top general said Thursday that human error probably was not a factor in the Army’s mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples from a chemical weapons testing site that was opened more than 70 years ago in a deso...
US military says it mistakenly shipped live anthrax samples
The Times Of India
WASHINGTON: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores to government and commercial laboratories in as many as nine states, as well as one overseas, ...
Sports
FIFA President Sepp Blatter kicks a ball during the inauguration of a football stadium in the village Dura Al-Qari' near the West Bank city of Ramallah, Wednesday, May 20, 2015.
(photo: AP / Majdi Mohammed)
What lies ahead for FIFA and Sepp Blatter in his 5th term
Philadelphia Daily News
ZURICH (AP) - The FIFA election is won and done. Sepp Blatter's problems, however, are far from over. | The prize for the 79-year-old president of soccer's governing body is four more years in office and some big issues ahead. American and Swiss federal investigations, which rocked FIFA this week, could yet creep closer to Blatter's door. | Blatter...
Business
Trader Lewis Vande-Pallen, right, with Seaport Securities works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday, March 31, 2010
(photo: AP / Craig Ruttle)
Stocks open slightly lower after economic data disappoints
U~T San Diego
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks were moderately lower in early morning trading Friday after the government reported that the U.S. economy contracted in the first three months of the year. | The revised data, published early Friday, showed that U.S. gross domestic product contracted 0.7 percent in the first quarter. That was worse than the government'...



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