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Sniffer dogs trained to find anthrax and leads from FBI agents in Africa point to former government scientist Steven Hatfill as a possible suspect in the five anthrax deaths. Three bloodhounds from California were given the scent from the anthrax letters that were sent last year and each of them led handlers to Hatfill?s apartment. He commissioned a report three years ago on how to deal with an anthrax attack by mail, which says that a terrorist would use 2.5 grams of powder in a standard envelope, which is the same amount sent to Senator Patrick Leahy. However, Hatfill continues to deny any involvement, and says, “I have never, ever worked with anthrax in my life.”
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As we reported on August 1st, FBI agents have searched theapartment of former Fort Detrick scientist Steven Hatfillfor the second time, on suspicion that he may be the anthraxterrorist. So why don’t they arrest him? We think it’sbecause he can reveal that the U.S. violated the civilrights of black citizens in a country that was fighting forindependence, and we did it by using biological weapons.

Hatfill has worked closely with the military and CIA anthraxexperts and has made statements about how easy it would befor terrorists to make biological weapons. Anothersuspicious clue is that as a medical student, he lived nearGreendale Elementary School in Zimbabwe. Greendale Schoolwas the phony return address used on the anthrax letters.
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FBI agents have conducted a second search of the Marylandapartment of former Fort Detrick scientist Steven Hatfill,on suspicion that he may be the anthrax terrorist who sentletters that left five people dead and at least 13 othersill last fall. Fort Detrick is the headquarters of the U.S.Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, andanthrax samples are stored there.

The FBI says it has uncovered new information. They alsosearched a rental storage unit in Ocala, Florida. BothHatfill’s apartment and the storage unit have been searchedpreviously, and agents said they found nothing immediatelyincriminating in the first searches.
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If you had a smallpox vaccination as a child and think you?re still protected, it?s not true. Almost everyone vaccinated before smallpox was eradicated in the mid-1970s has now lost their immunity.

621 microbiologists in Maryland received fresh vaccinations between 1994 and 2001 to protect them in their work. Before they had the shots, only about 40 of them, or just six per cent, were still immune from their earlier vaccinations. “The study is, to the best of my knowledge, the only one since eradication which tries to look at the durability of immunity,” says Michael Sauri, director of the Occupational Medicine Clinic in Maryland. “It’s showing us that after 20 years immunity is not going to be there.”
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