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Published online 1 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1005
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Biodefence researcher linked to anthrax attacks
US anthrax expert who committed suicide was under investigation.
A microbiologist and anthrax expert at a US Army biodefence research laboratory has apparently committed suicide while on the verge of indictment in the still-unsolved 2001 anthrax attacks.
Bruce Ivins worked on anthrax vaccines and treatment at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick, Maryland, for more than 35 years.
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This story belongs to Crime and Justice rather than science. A person is presumed innocent untill proven guilty. Was an innocent man harassed to the point of commiting suicide or a guilty man overcome with remorse or apprehension, we will probably now never know. Maybe the US Department of Justice needs to now reveal the "significant developments" that it claims had been made in the investigation and the "new and sophisticated scientific tools" which led it to plan the indictment of Bruce Ivins.