A US Army lab accidentally shipped live anthrax to at least 192 laboratories, according to a Department of Defense statement. That’s more than double the number reported by the Pentagon in June.
On the DOD's Laboratory Review site, the agency on Monday updated the list of all the laboratories that had received anthrax spores. The list now includes labs in all 50 states, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands and Washington, DC. Seven foreign countries also received the shipments, including Japan, the UK, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Italy, and Germany.
This is at least the third time the Pentagon has updated the number of labs that accidentally received shipments of Bacillus anthracis, the bacterium that makes up anthrax...
