Five people died and 17 people were sickened during anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001; outbreak is often referred to as Amerithrax. Anthrax was sent via anonymous letters to news agencies in ...

Scott Decker, the former FBI special agent on the investigation into the 2001 anthrax attacks, has named one little-recognized hero who "risked his medical career" to save "hundreds, maybe a ...

For example, unlike the anthrax spores in the letters, the RMR-1029 spores did not contain silicon ... to correct the organizational and methodological problems seen in the Amerithrax investigation.

"Amerithrax 184" is the case name assigned by the FBI to the investigation of the anthrax letter attacks. The National Academy of Science will be reviewing the scientific evidence developed in the ...

As it turned out, the letter attack, dubbed Amerithrax by the FBI, was not masterminded by al-Qaida or any other foreign terrorists. Ultimately, strong circumstantial evidence suggested that the ...

Letters laced with anthrax, a deadly bacteria in powder form, began making their way through the U.S. mail, killing five Americans and sickening 17 others. The FBI code name “Amerithrax.” ...

The reason seemed inexplicable: a co-worker at Boca Raton's American Media Inc. opened a letter laced with the deadly bacteria anthrax. Anthrax-laced letters reached the offices of two U.S ...

Letters were also sent to the offices of then-Sen. Tom Daschle and Sen. Patrick Leahy. After the attacks, the FBI created the "Amerithrax Task Force" to conduct an investigation that the FBI has ...

Five people died and 17 people were sickened during anthrax attacks in the fall of 2001; outbreak is often referred to as Amerithrax. Anthrax was sent via anonymous letters to news agencies in ...

Here’s a look at the 2001 anthrax attacks, also referred to as Amerithrax. Facts about anthrax There are four types of anthrax infection: cutaneous (through the skin), inhalation (through the lungs; ...