FBI official leading anthrax probe off the case

NBC ^ | 9/19/06 | Jim Popkin

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The two drum makers, and a few weavers are the usual victims of anthrax. It is ever present in the soil, that is why the physicians will ask you if you have been gardening. The spores live in the soil for sure for 50 years and maybe a lot longer.'

If your garden spot used to be a sheep pasture, then you will contract it if you have an open wound, even a nick or scrape.

Cattlemen get it usually on their faces when handling dead of anthrax animal carcases. Men are clean shaven...at least around here and there are microscopic nicks and cuts.

Another non-weaponized avenue is digging a basement in an area where an anthrax infected animal has been buried. Anywhere along the Chisholm Trail or any other cattle trail, this is documented.

The outbreaks in the cattle in Canada and South Dakota are a reminder that most animals will contract the gastrointestinal type. The strongest and most aggressive grazers will contract it and die without the owner knowing. The animals will look in excellent flesh, not sickly or straggling. In India, these types of animals will be consumed and then the humans die as well.

By checking the strain, one can tell the origin of the infected hide.

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5 years later...

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Former F.B.I. Agent Sues, Claiming Retaliation Over Misgivings in Anthrax Case
The New York Times ^ | 08 April 2015 | Scott Shane

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Former F.B.I. Agent Sues, Claiming Retaliation Over Misgivings in Anthrax Case
4/16/2015, 1:30:01 PM · by Theoria · 4 replies
The New York Times ^ | 08 April 2015 | Scott Shane
When Bruce E. Ivins, an Army microbiologist, took a fatal overdose of Tylenol in 2008, the government declared that he had been responsible for the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, which killed five people and set off a nationwide panic, and closed the case. Now, a former senior F.B.I. agent who ran the anthrax investigation for four years says that the bureau gathered “a staggering amount of exculpatory evidence” regarding Dr. Ivins that remains secret. The former agent, Richard L. Lambert, who spent 24 years at the F.B.I., says he believes it is possible that Dr. Ivins was the anthrax...