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Nature 414, 570 (6 December 2001) | doi:10.1038/414570b

Anthrax evidence implies US culprit

David Adam

The investigation into the anthrax attacks in the United States may be homing in on the unsettling prospect that a researcher from America's own biological weapons programme is responsible.Barbara Rosenberg, a microbiologist at the State University of New York who chairs the biological weapons working group at the Federation of American Scientists, claimed this week that the investigations point to a microbiologist who once had access to weaponized anthrax in a US government lab.