Anthrax Death Case
A tentative settlement has been reached, subject to Justice Department approval, of a lawsuit brought against the U.S. government by the widow of a Florida editor who died in the 2001 anthrax mailing. She claimed that the government was at fault in failing to stop someone from working at an Army infectious disease lab from creating weapons-grade anthrax used in letters that killed five people and sickened 17 others.
The government contended that there was no proof its actions, or lack of adequate security or precautions, directly caused the man’s death, but the lawsuit claimed that the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, had a history of missing pathogens and a failure to track down dangerous microbes.
An FBI criminal investigation concluded that a lone federal scientist mailed the anthrax attacks to locations in Florida, New York and Washington, D.C., including the Senate office building. He committed suicide before he could be prosecuted.
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