According to USA Today, live samples of anthrax were shipped from a military lab to 51 other laboratories in 17 states (including Tennessee), the District of Columbia and three foreign countries, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
That’s more than twice as many laboratories as previously believed, according to the preliminary results of an investigation led by Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work.
“We expect this number may rise,” Work said.
The Pentagon will finish by the end of June its study of why an Army lab mistakenly sent out the potentially deadly anthrax samples, said Frank Kendall, the military’s top acquisition chief.
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