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Would a local nut have sent an anthrax letter to a doctor in Nairobi on 9/8?

That letter to Kenya is the one that is strange. It was sent, but apparently tampered with. That would indicate that the perpetrator had to be "within" the postal system. I think that one was a Priority Mail letter, if I remember right. It had "moisture" and a strange cloth that the sender apparently did not put in the packet.

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>Would a local nut have sent an anthrax letter to a doctor in Nairobi on 9/8?

Here's a Kafkaesque postscript to that story:

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Kenya; US, Nairobi Conflict On Anthrax Tests The Monitor Africa News October 26, 2001 Friday

A letter which Kenyan authorities last week said contained spores of anthrax has since tested negative for the deadly bacteria, a US embassy spokesman told AFP on Wednesday.

"We have not seen the additional tests. Our position remains the same."

"After further testing of the Kenya sample... the initial positive result cannot be replicated or confirmed," added the spokesman, who said his announcement followed advice received from the Centres for Disease Control (CDC), a US government agency with staff in Kenya. But Kenyan officials said they were not informed. The health ministry said it had no knowledge of the new findings.

"We have not seen the additional tests. Our position remains the same. We are not aware of new results," the health ministry's director of medical services Richard Muga told AFP, adding that the original tests had been carried out by "experts."

On October 18, Kenyan Health Minister Sam Ongeri announced that two separate tests, smear-and-stain and culture, had shown that material from the Atlanta missive had tested positive for anthrax, making it the first confirmed case of the bacteria outside the United States.

"The letter was re-tested by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and the consensus of the microbiologists was that the letter was not contaminated with anthrax. It is believed that the tests were conducted on mildew or fungus," said the US spokesman's information statement put out by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Atlanta.

Senior officials from KEMRI and CDC were not available for comment Wednesday.