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June 16, 2015

US anthrax samples shipped to Japan in 2005: Pentagon
Washington (AFP) June 12, 2015
The US military shipped live anthrax to an American base in Japan a decade ago, bringing to five the number of countries that were inadvertently sent the lethal bacteria, officials said Friday. The sample was sent in 2005 to Camp Zama southwest of Tokyo and was destroyed in 2009, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said. "There currently is no anthrax - activated or inactivated - in Japan at this time," Warren said. South Korea, Canada, Australia and Britain have also received active ... read more

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