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Nature 428, 242 (18 March 2004) | doi:10.1038/428242b

Plague professor gets two years in bioterror case

Erika Check

Microbiologist Thomas Butler has been sentenced to two years in prison for convictions that stem from a January 2003 bioterrorism scare.The case began when Butler reported vials of plague bacteria missing from his lab at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.