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Published online 18 February 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030217-5
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Bioterror detectives need new tools.
Scientists stress need for better biocrime forensics.
In 1998, one Palestinian and six Bulgarian doctors were accused of an unusual biocrime: injecting nearly 400 children with HIV laden blood in Benghazi, Libya. This case remains unsolved; but instances of malicious HIV transmission are probably the only biocrimes to have been tried in court using forensic evidence.
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