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One anthrax sample was also shipped off to an American military base in South Korea, the Pentagon told Reuters. That sample was destroyed.
Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that the anthrax had been shipped out of state, but assured, "there are no risks to the public."
"We are investigating the inadvertent transfer of live anthrax from a DoD lab from Dugway Proving Ground," Col. Warren said. Dugway Proving Ground is a US Army facility in Utah.
According to the Pentagon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assisting the military with investigating the matter.
Col. Warren told the Associated Press that the government had confirmed that a single shipment meant to contain dead, or inactivated anthrax samples for research use actually contained live specimens. According to AP, Warren said the government believes eight other shipments contained similarly live samples.
The samples in question were shipped to labs in Texas, Maryland, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, California and Virginia, according to AP.
Last year, the director of the CDC's bioterror laboratory resigned after a scare raised concerns that dozens of government employees has potentially been exposed to anthrax at an Atlanta facility.
True. Absolutely true. The public is only at risk when the Government INTENDS to kill us, like on 9-11 and the anthrax attacks which followed. We the People have nothing to fear from Islamic terrorists, except those like Al Qaeda and ISIS which our own government has trained, funded and armed, and which it will unleash upon us when they figure we need to be shook up a little.
They rule by fear. Our fear. Keep us terrified and we will allow ourselves to be utterly enslaved by the vicious shitheads who rule us.
Don't you love them? Those pompous turds who sit up there on Capitol Hill pretending their excreta smells like roses? Just think, when you get your next paycheck, of what your taxes go to pay for. Murdering millions of people around the world so they will give up their mineral treasures for plunder by those leeches, and murdering thousands of us here in the USA so we will let it happen.
No, we are not at risk of accidental death. Only at risk of deliberate murder by our own rulers.