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Reports, information, and reactions to anthrax used as an act of terrorism.

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• Asia Times: India has the Medicine to Aid US Anthrax Fight

  http://www.atimes.com/ind-pak/CJ23Df01.html
  The country's largest pharmaceuticals company says that it is ready to increase production of a cheaper, generic form of Cipro as soon as it receives the necessary approval. Hong Kong.

• BBC News - Anthrax Alert at US Consulate

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/northern_ireland/1614123.stm
  Two employees at the American Consulate in Belfast are taken to hospital after coming into contact with a white powder contained in the post.

• BBC News - New Law Targets Anthrax Hoaxers

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1611170.stm
  The government is rushing through new legislation to deal with bio-terror hoaxers, after scores of anthrax scares across the UK.

• Guardian Unlimited: Special Report: Anthrax

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/anthrax
  Latest and archived news, interactive guide [Flash required], advice, victims' accounts, commentary and analysis, background information, and discussion forum. United Kingdom.

• Handwriting Analysis Details

  http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/writing1.html
  An amateur sleuth concludes that the use of block letters suggest that a child wrote letters transmitting anthrax spores in 2001.

• NYTimes.com - Anthrax Sent Through Mail Gained Potency by the Letter

  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/national/07ANTH.html
  Scientific analysis of the spores and envelopes from the fall 2001 U.S. incidents lead to some surprising discoveries.

• PBS Frontline: The 1979 Anthrax Leak

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/plague/sverdlovsk/
  Report on the anthrax outbreak which affected 94 people and killed at least 64 in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk that was revealed by President Boris Yeltsin, in 1992, to be the result of military activity at a biological weapons facility.

• Riddle of the Spores

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/may/21/anthrax.uk
  George Monbiot comments on the status of the FBI investigations. The Guardian, UK.

• Washington Post: Anthrax

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/attack/investigation_35.html
  Describes how a room is swept for anthrax, tested, decontaminated and cleaned.

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