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by John Dudley Miller

Questions on US anthrax tests

Email: John Dudley Miller - johnmiller@nasw.org
News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040309-03

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—More than two years after the US anthrax letter attacks, the standard testing procedures for detecting the disease on indoor surfaces remain unreliable and unproven, according to two scientists who have studied the problem. The likely inaccuracy of those methods may leave the nation unable to determine the extent of contamination should another attack occur, they said at the annual American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Biodefense research meeting in Baltimore today (March 9).


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