Events Tagged: "bioterrorism"

First anthrax-laced letters postmarked from Trenton, New Jersey, sent to news media outlets

Robert Stevens, photojournalist at American Media Inc., became first person to die from inhalation anthrax

Bruce Ivins examined Daschle anthrax spores: 'extremely pure preparation, extremely high concentration. These are not garage spores'

Additional anthrax letters sent to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy

Final toll: Five people died and 17 were infected in what became known as 'Amerithrax'

Ivins typed email to colleagues offering to provide Ames strain 'for genetic analysis or sequencing by whomever'

President Bush announced he would request $11 billion over next two years to protect nation from bioterrorism