Shortly after 11 September 2001
the United States received another scare, this time caused by the
so-called anthrax letters. These letters arrived in two waves. The first
set was sent from Trenton, New Jersey to newspapers and media in New
York and Boca Raton (Florida) on 18 September 2001. Only two of these
letters were found but the outbreak of anthrax infections led to the
conclusion that there were others. On 9 October two more letters were
sent, again from Trenton, addressed to two Democratic senators at the
Capitol in Washington DC. The material in these two letters was stronger
than the substance in the first set. The letters contained approximately
one gram of almost pure anthrax spores.
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