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Scientists concluded that anthrax sent in letters last year was less than 2 years old, leading investigators to suspect that the person responsible could make more, according to a published report.
“It’s modern,” a government official told The New York Times for a Sunday story. “It was grown and, therefore, it can be grown again and again.”
The age of the anthrax that killed five people and sickened more than a dozen last fall gives credence to the theory that the person responsible is connected to a microbiology laboratory and may have used new equipment, officials told the newspaper. It casts doubt on the theory that the mailer obtained an old lab sample of the germ.
