Anthrax Part 3: Amerithrax

Part 3 of our series on anthrax will finish up describing the last days of the 2001 US postal service anthrax attacks up until the final victim and will review the investigation up until the key 2007 scientific discovery that was able to trace the microbe used in the crime to a single flask in the possession of a researcher at the United States Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). Next week – how did science advance the investigation to its conclusion and who was the man who allegedly committed the crime?  

Sources:

1. The United States Department of Justice Amerithrax Investigative Summary

2. Anthrax In America: A Chronology and Analysis of the Fall 2001 Attacks via the Center for Counterproliferation Research (CCR)

3. Fifth person dies from anthrax by Deborah Josefson

4. Widow who died of anthrax laid to rest via CNN

5. Total decontamination cost of the anthrax letter attacks by Ketra Schmitt and Nicholas A Zacchia

6. The Ottilie W Lundgren Memorial Field Hospital via CT.gov

7. The Last Mysterious Days of Anthrax Victim Kathy Nguyen by Bridget Harrison