In the aftermath of 9/11, there were few words that instilled fear as quickly as "anthrax," as there were often accurate and also false reports of biological attacks through mail and the like with the potentially deadly virus - and now fears go right back with the anthrax Pentagon and Canada scandal.
A few days back, Food World News reported that the United States Department of Defense had publicly admitted to a leak of a live version of the virus to different labs throughout the country as well as one in South Korea, but it seems things have gotten even more worrying since late May with the anthrax Pentagon Canada situation.
According to USA Today, the anthrax Pentagon Canada scandal first came out last Monday, as the Defense Department HQ announced that there had been additional samples of live anthrax sent to the northern neighboring country, to up to three different laboratories.
In fact, the anthrax Pentagon Canada scandal already accounts to 12 different states, three countries and even the District of Columbia - besides the fact that CNN reports that they've also sent shipments of the live virus to Australia and there were also samples of anthrax within the very Pentagon Force Protection Agency.
There was knowledge of the anthrax Pentagon Canada beforehand, but the status of the virus was the wrong one: they weren't supposed to be live samples but rather dead ones.
While so far there have been no accidents or casualties, currently there are 28 different places inside the United States with live anthrax spores, namely labs in California, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin, all of which came from a Utah laboratory.
According to Gizmodo, the anthrax Pentagon Canada case isn't the first time there are major biohazard concerns coming from government officials, as the FDA also admitted in the past that they'd found more than 300 unaccounted vials of different pathogens like smallpox and dengue fever.
