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Military "Accidentally" Sends Live Anthrax To 9 States Via FedEx
A week after the 9/11 terrorists attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers in New York, letters laced with anthrax began to pop up across the US. By the end of November, 2001, 17 people had been hospitalized for anthrax exposure and five people were dead from inhalation. A subsequent FBI investigation pinned the entire ordeal on one Bruce Ivins who killed himself in 2008.
Fast forward to yesterday and 26 people are now being treated for exposure after live anthrax was sent via FedEx. The culprit: the US military.
No, really.
CNN has more:
Four lab workers in the United States and up to 22 overseas have been put in post-exposure treatment, a defense official said, following the revelation the U.S. military inadvertently shipped live anthrax samples in the past several days.
CNN learned on Wednesday a Maryland-based lab received the live samples, which prompted an across the board urgent review to see whether any other live anthrax has been shipped.
Officials are concerned because samples left over at the lab in Dugway, Utah, where the samples originated, were tested and determined to contain live agent.
The shipments, thought to be dead, were shipped under less rigorous conditions than the live agent protocol.
NBC News reported that the anthrax was sent via FedEx.
The army apparently thought they were shipping samples rendered inactive by gamma radiation last year, but that clearly was not the case because when a Maryland lab received their sample last Friday they were able to grow live Bacillus anthracis. The lab reported their concerns to the CDC. By Saturday afternoon, labs in Maryland, Texas, Wisconsin, Delaware, New Jersey, Tennessee, New York, California and Virginia were notified that the US military had accidentally mailed them the deadly bacteria. A sample sent to a US base in South Korea was destroyed on Wednesday.
For their part, the military has got nothing (Via WSJ):
The military and CDC are investigating whether the full batch was irradiated improperly or if some other error occurred, allowing live samples to be sent. A military official said it is simply not known what went wrong.
Here's a bit more color from Reuters, who notes that the samples will now be sent to the CDC who will hopefully not follow their usual Anthrax shipping protocol:
"Out of an abundance of caution, (the Defense Department) has stopped the shipment of this material from its labs pending completion of the investigation," said Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren.
The CDC said it has launched an investigation of the mishap.
All samples involved in the investigation will be securely transferred to the CDC or affiliated labs for further testing, spokeswoman Kathy Harden said, adding that CDC has sent officials to the labs "to conduct on-site investigations."
The mishap comes 11 months after the CDC, one of the government's top civilian labs, similarly mishandled anthrax.
Researchers at a lab designed to handle extremely dangerous pathogens sent what they believed were killed samples of anthrax to another CDC lab, one with fewer safeguards and therefore not authorized to work with live anthrax.
Scores of CDC employees could have been exposed to the live anthrax, but none became ill.
As a refresher, this is what CDC Director Thomas Frieden has to say about the agency's anthrax safety record (Via WaPo from last July):
The head of the federal government’s public health laboratories in Atlanta told Congress Wednesday that researchers mishandled live anthrax and other deadly pathogens in the past because agency officials failed to see a broad pattern of safety lapses.
In the past, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention focused too narrowly on responding to specific incidents at individual laboratories without addressing more systemic issues.
“We missed a critical pattern,” said CDC Director Thomas Frieden. “And the pattern is an insufficient culture of safety.”
Frieden testified before an oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee that focused on laboratory safety after more than 80 CDC employees may have been exposed to live anthrax last month, when samples were transferred from one lab to other CDC labs.
As a result of the CDC’s internal investigation, the agency disclosed last week that there had been four other incidents in the past decade when deadly pathogens were mishandled. None had been previously disclosed by the CDC.
And then of course there was the incident which occurred in December when the agency admitted to mishandling an Ebola sample, potentially exposing a dozen people to the deadliest virus known to mankind.
It sounds like the new anthrax samples are now in good hands.
The punchline to this latest example of government ineptitude when it comes to handling bioweapons is that the Maryland lab who reported the mishap was participating in an "effort to develop a field-based test to identify biological threats." Thanks to the US military, they got a crash course.
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Time to break out the Cipro
But the military is thrilled cause they found gamma ray resistant anthrax now.
American Mil + Various 3 letter peeps are old hands at such accidents...
Remember the Sarin gas attack in Tokyo?
Old hands....psycopaths...some genes missing, for sure....
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2012/03/23/un-holy-smoke-and-biblical-f...
Do they have video of the Fed Ex guy dropping and kicking the package all the way from his truck and then throwing the box over top of the gate at these facilities to complete "delivery"?
Odd this happens right when Bill Gates is out their talking about how he thinks there is a 50% chance a super virus might effect the world's population.
A bioweapon like that, especially one where only the chosen few have the cure, what power. uuugh these people are so evil.
Why do I have to live in a society run by people who want to kill me?
If this is our best and brightest, we're fu*ked!
What about the bigger question: What the hell was the military doing sending what they thought was INACTIVE anthrax to so many labs to begin with? What new or additional studies need to be done by how many additional Mengeles? How many 'samples' of anthrax are enough in the U.S.? Why are there even that many labs still interested in that (or any other) cold-war bioweapon?
Actually, clinical labs do isolate select agents occasionally, including Anthrax. The government insists we notify them when this occurs. Obviously, they must be concerned for our safety.
Miffed;-)
What, pray tell, is the necessity to ship anthrax all over the world (Includes Korea)? Like sprinkles on cupcakes? What's everybody doing with the crap? Why are they doing it? Is this like GNMA, Fannie and Freddie, all doing the same fucking thing, just duplicated?
And come to think of it, Anthrax is probably less risky that Fannie, Freddie or Ginnie .....
Huh
Aw, gimme a break..
At least it wasn’t Ebola or some other nasty Andromeda Strain we are shipping around.
gee, this would be so humorous if wasn't so pathetic
Meh, for Govt., the primary motivator is CYA!
"Why do I have to live in a society run by people who want to kill me?
We don't. There are more of us then them. Just how many people realise that fact and then act upon it is the big question.
The Unites States is run entirely by men and women who worship Lucifer.
read the book.. "Lucifer Effect"..
it's all about morons in authority giving permission to unknowledgeable actors
..and then you might want to know the author’s opinion about “manly” men.
He dropped dead not too long after completing the delivery.
Yes, I love my job. Getting called to accept a package from the loading dock is more exhilarating than any roller coaster.
Miffed
Adrenalin junky.
Return to sender
Yeah, if you or I did that, we'd be looking at enough Fed Terror charges to lock us up for 5 lifetimes.
Yet when they do it, it's just "Ooops, we'll investigate, and get to the bottom of this".
Suspicious Minds.
exceptional
Only on O's America does this happen.
Happy Memorial Day...
Please return the virus FedEx overnight to our facility at POTUS, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC.
The container is not crucial, loose lids encouraged.
FORWARD SOVIET SCIENCE!
Pentagon spokesman Steve Urkel: "Did we do that?"
Trail run
It'll take about three or so months for each facility to grom enough and weaponise it to do the "job". Thats about the right timing I think. Right around 2015.75.
I think it made the news as to send a message to some folks
Now why does this keep reminding me of that report from the Rockefeller Foundation from a few years back?
(Possibly the reminder is that Bill Gates was talking recently about the threat of pandemics, and his Gates Foundation has partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation in much evil doings?)
http://anonhq.com/pandemics-investments-simulation-predictions-population-control/
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/bba493f7-cc97-4da3-add6-3deb007cc719.pdf
http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/uploads/files/ee894ae0-480a-40a0-95b7-8b7f75904f8e.pdf
Recommended reading:
The New Prophets of Capital by Nicole Aschoff
A week after the 9/11 false flag attacks that destroyed the Twin Towers in New York
There, fixed that opening statement for you Tyler.
Edit: BTW, there are no "accidents"
more on this guy who "killed" himself from 2011;
http://www.propublica.org/article/new-evidence-disputes-case-against-bru...
Interesting, thanks.
Check out Dr. Graeme MacQueens' book:
The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case For A Domestic Conspiracy.
Add to that a really colossally great book hardly anyone has heard of on this subject:
Dead Silence
by Bob Coen and Eric Nadler
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articles/Coen.pdf
One of the top paragraphs talks about a rare strain of anthrax that is used in labs world wide...
I can't think of anything funny to say about this.
How bout... "And the anthrax is really pissed about being tased with gamma rays"
Vonnegut - this is right out of Vonnegut. Like Secret Service agents not paying hookers in Columbia.
Welcome to the Monkey House.
More like "Cat's Cradle" methinks.
There are only five members of the band. I wonder who they divided them up to send to nine locations.
Luckily I never open mail from the US Govt.
...out of an "abundance of caution".
Do cross off getting vaccines as well.
https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/live-avian-flu-virus-pl...
Miffed;-)
I believe if we get infected from the Anthrax, the radiation from Fukushima will cure us!
You have never heard of Hiroshi Ouchi, have you?
Isn't he the Japanese spokesman for Bactine?
Was there any inadvertently sent to those voting on the Renewal of the Patriot Act per chance???
In 2001, anthrax was sent to senators Daschle and Leahy because they were most likely to vote against the Patriot Act
Can I get off my LAKE position now?
If an individual did this, he would be called a terrorist. When the government does this, it is an accident.
"When the government does this, it is an accident."
Naaaah . . . .
When the gov't does it, it's business as usual . . .
"The army apparently thought they were shipping samples rendered inactive by gamma radiation last year, but that clearly was not the case because when a Maryland lab received their sample last Friday they were able to grow live Bacillus anthracis."
How concerned should I be that gamma radiation can't kill this shit?
I still have a glass jar with about a pound of Mercury in it from when I was a kid. Used to roll that stuff around in my hands, just for fun. Me and all my friends did. How concerned should I be that I'm not dead yet?
Great explanation for some of your posts.
I also never wore a bike helmet when I was a kid, either.
You getting the picture yet?
I'm glad I wasn't the only one. Grandad let me play with his massive mercury collection when I was a kid. He had hundreds of pounds of the stuff in steel flasks. Opened one up and let me have at it. Loved going to his place.
Same here.
Had a Mason jar full of it. Would roll it around in the jar, sniff it, put a little in my hand, sometimes dropped a little on the floor. No biggie.
"Out of an abundance of caution, (the Defense Department) has stopped the shipment of this material from its labs pending completion of the investigation," said Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren.
Abundance of caution???, ya now I feel better
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Create one if you need one.
It is illegal to ship certain things without declaration of contents and proper protocol: and this shit is dangerous. Time to close some facilities and retire a rack of lab coats.
Prosecuting a couple of over-paid CDC & .MIL Gomers will gt the point about following protocols accross. Pulling some brass off of a few dozen shoulders follewed by transfers to shitholes in the thrid world or immediate discharges at the much lowered rank willl wake up the uniformed middle mis-managers.
Did you mean "rack of lamb coats"?
What kind of country would have biological or chemical or nuclear weapons and uses them.
Fuck the USA.
It's amazing just how pervasive the evil is. from the scientists and engineers who build the weapons to the average joe who joins the armed services. Normal people, are evil to the core, yet we don't seem to notice. We don't seem to care.
Child: "Hi daddy, how was your day"
Father: "Good son, a bit busy but it was ok. We've finally finished the enhancements to the stinger missile I've been working with".
Child: "What;s a stinger missile daddy".
Father: "It's a device for killing people son".
Child: "Oh. What's for dinner".
HUMANS ARE EVIL MOTHER FUCKERS. WE/RE ALL COMPLIANT IN THIS SHIT, ALL OF US.
At the other end of that scale is the drone pilot, ultimate cowardice...
What is the Army doing with anthrax? Have we not bombed, and wanted to bomb other countries for having chemical weapons? HUH?
Yes... It is AMAZING that the Pentagon didn't try to BLAME President Assad from Syria for this fooBar on their part... they rarely miss a chance to tell a lie.
Could this have anything to do with Jade Helm? "Home schoolers/patriots poison the troops with Anthrax!"
That would be a UN2814, Infectious Substance, affecting humans (solid).
Let's hope the FAA special inspector gives their shipper a body cavity search. I know they know everything I have ever sent out.
pods
leaders of the free world. lol
listen up all you wannabe nato stooges.
these are the people in charge.
all you bumpkins in the baltics, all you pinheads in poland your future is in the mail.
lmao
Accident? Or just got caught?
This is what you get for pushing your dirty work off onto a low level clerk that fucks up and puts a return address on it lol.
So they have it, and they are playing with it... ya now I feel better
fortunately the Government never does anything that begins with Oooopps..
The follow up story:
9 Govt. Employees Die From Sniffing Anthrax Thought To Be Flakka
Uma Thurman is going to star in the remake of this.
Shoulda been Capitol Hill on the receiving end.
Everyone makes a mistake sometime in their lives. If you had drunk a bottle of JD and screwed 2 chicks all night wouldn't you make some mistakes when you had to handle anthrax? Jesus forgave those who fucked up and so should we.
Hmmm, I wonder how pressure washer guy is doing these days.
No one will be fired.
Unless they can find some poor schmuck E-3 to pin it all on.
http://www.militaryrates.com/military-pay-charts-e1_e5_2015
Jade Helm early launch?
Murica is fucking freak show
Not to worry, there's abundant cautiousness afoot.
oops, they meant to ship that shit to congress
the mic is protecting us from terrorism. LMAO!
It's OK, folks. Just a test, that's all. National Security. Don't worry. We will take care of you. Please hand over your money.
they play with anthrax every day so you know shit happens sometimes
So, dropping it from 30,000 ft wasn't working?
how much you want to bet that is the exact same strain that was sent to the congressional mail room?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOljwJCujLk
WTF ???????????????
Assholes
For those who thought it was another coke delivery things ended very badly
You silly taxpayers cannot be trusted with pistols or semiautomatic rifles, while we gov't tools play around with nerve agents, biological weapons and yes, cruel and inhuman anthrax spores.
Don't worry, we have our top men on this.
Top men.
URGENT MESSAGE: All labs who suspect they may have been sent Live Anthrax should immediately send their samples to:
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC
Where the Genius-In-Chief (GIC) will personally check it out.
ENDS
Live Anthrax
I am the law
The bastion of freedom and democracy, experimenting with Antrhrax. Should be ok, it's not as if the US would . . . . say . . . . . have nuclear weapons and use them. The Anthrax will be fine, just fine. Couldn't be with a more trustworthy nation.
ASK WHAT BROWN CAN DO FOR YOU!...
Melt my face off with a Bioweapon it seems....
Of course, nobody will get in trouble for this at all. They'll all probably get their raises as usual. "Trust us. We're from the government, and we're here to help."
More importantly, no one will actually lose their job...
Accountability? What's that?
Sovereign Immunity, don't you know old man...
My dog ate the mail again. Damn, I wonder what was in it.
At US Customs, "Hey this box is labeled "Anthrax!". "Lemme see, Oh, that's a perfume - guaranteed to get you laid." Custom employee gleefully opens the box, pops a vial and takes a huge sniff.....
Dip-shits. The bunch of them. No wonder we lost the war.
It is not possible to win a war, the only question is which side is the greater loser.
MISTAKES AND ACCIDENTS
LIKE ALL THE SUPPLY DROPS BY THE BRITS AND TEAM USA TO THE ISIS rita katz zion team
"mistakes were made"...always better to use the passive voice when trying to cover-up a massive debacle.
Wow... this is unbelievabe.
And I am sure, nobody will get arrested.
Unless of course, they can find a suitable patsy.
This is the new normal.
This is simply due to budget cuts. They just need more funding, lets call it an even billion.
We anthraxed some folks.
More fear manufactured by the Obozo clown school.
US is great at fear manufacturing.
Not my favorite metal band, but not sure why this is a big deal?
Pretty sure Anthrax on the loose will lead to "MegaDeath!"
Since when has any military shown the least interest in, or even knowledge of, the sanctity of human life?
The military mindset is to kill, not to in any way protect or preserve human life.
Calm down, it was just a drill in prep of WWIII.
Free anthrax for everybody. Don't push, there's plenty for everybody folks.
Why exactly does the military need anthrax?
Same reason they must have nuclear bombs and standard ordinance,,, to kill people. Military's only purpose.
" When you absolutely, positively, have to spread pathogens overnight!"
Accident? My ass. JH15 bitches!
The old Anthrax in the mail trick, eh!
As long as it doesn't affect Obama's August on Martha's Vineyard plans it's all good.
"Mishap"
When reminiscing about WW2 one finds that there were 50 to 80 million humans eradicated from the globe spurring a period of economic boom.
Reference the plague when seeing what spurred the Renaissance.
History shows that either plague or war is the fix for global recessions.
Can we say it was an act of biological war ?
Cuz its .gov. Those fucking retards could miss water falling out of a boat.
Funny but last night on a rerun of The Big Bang Theory, Bernadette said "One time at my lab, a petri dish of genetically modified super-virus went missing. That day we made a pinky swear never to admit we crossed Ebola with the common cold."
Send the NWO and its military to Somalia to stay.
Those dastradly muzzies,Fundies and Alciaduh,they hate us for our freedom.
Please fix the title, it should read:
"Military "Accidentally" Sends Live Anthrax Again"
Get me?
"We anthraxed via FedEx some folks..."
Executives have been systemically dumbing down employees are part of a labor cost reduction process. (Now the Idiocracy is in full bloom after 25-35 years)
- Public
- Private
All had Unions and smart employees with systems developed from the 1950s and even ombudsman legal representatives on site to deal with issues.
- Automation, Computers, outsourcing, Subcontracting, Robots part of the processes in reducing Labor Rates
- Getting rid of Unions and smart workers is part of the process for reducing labor rates
"War is when the government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself."
http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh544/Jackagain/war-is-when-your-gov...
What the fuck can you do with dead anthrax that you can't do with a non-toxic simulant? It's dead, it doesn't do anything. What are you possibly using it for? This is just fucking dumb. No more anthrax for these dickheads. Destroy ALL the anthrax, fire ALL the researchers. Problems solved.
What if these new anthrax bugs are gamma-enhanced mutant super anthrax instead of gamma-slain anthrax?
Original Anthrax scare just after 911 looks more suspicious every day. I wonder if there was any premeditation by the Pentagon. It sure makes FISA was premeditated also?
America is a terrorist rogue state with biological weapons.
America needs to be put to sleep now.
its always THE MILITARY, THE ARMY, the IRS, the EPA, the WHITE HOUSE, the PENTAGON
some inanimate entity
WHAT IS THE NAME RANK AND SERIAL NUMBER OF THE PERSON
and hold that PERSON accountable ...
was it perhaps a "major hassan" type who oooops i shipped live anthrax.... ooooopsie
fuck that ... this person should be court martialed
and what kind of fucked up "ARMY" doesn't know the anthrax theey ahve is LIVE and handles it as it it were "dead"... is there a difference???
WHAT ELSE IS THE "ARMY" FUCKING AROUND WITH......nukes perhaps..?? ah ah ah yes that was an ISIS attack... hehehehe
WASN'T THERE AN ISSUE OF SHIPPING NUKES FROM TEXAS TO CHARLESTON VIA TRUCK with zero paperwork....wtf..??????? and zero accountability......