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Amerithrax — Part 3
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FD-302a (Rev. 10-6-95)
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Growing the B. anthracis organism is eas
In addition’to the difficulty of creating a flowing
powder of the organism, the individual would have needed to grow
hundreds of liters in order to have the amount of organism used in
these mailings.. Someone would have noticed this happening. . If. .
done outside of a level III laboratory, believed that there
would have been dead animals in the area o e production of the
organism (e.g. a garage or residence). It would be difficult to
control the size of the isolation without any of it getting out,
and animals are much more susceptible to B. anthracis than are
humans. There are very few people out there who would have the
access and the ability to produce this isolation.
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recalled that the FBI had sent out an e-mail to BIC
the 35,000 ASM membership asking for assistance in how it could
. have been done, or who may have done it. Some of the scientists
were offended by the request. Some of the scientists failed to see
the big picture and were resistant to the thought that one of their
own could have done this act.
was not aware of anyone who expressed a special
inter in getting around established forensic techniques.
added that there are, "...too many genetic markers to, get
around it."
[_faoes not pave any personal associations with
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