And after going through the mail and being shattered, the remaining dry ice wouldn't fit into the container?
Hmmm...fishy... Maybe Reba and her husband were your mysterious thieves.
I remember driving by the USDA facility which was actually on my way home, north of the main campus, by the railroad tracks out by itself.
Are you talking about the building that was just north of Industrial Education II, taken down in the late 1990s?
I know they said there was no overall inventory, so are they admitting that their stewardship of this pathogen was compromised early on?
That's how I took it...that there was nobody using it actively, so it was a pure liability from the administrative standpoint.
Put yourself in their shoes. They want to steal it but the know stealing is wrong. So they don't want to get caught with it on their person. Hey....what are you doing with that.
So they mailed it out of the building to a local address and another Pakistani student from the same hometown as the one that took it from the storage place. But he was nervous and he transposed 116 to 161. The Post Office delivered it to 161 which was occupied by this woman who sat across the table from me in class. She opened it and this resulted in an infection on her arm.
Then she touched her husband and he got one on his face. You have to have a break in the skin to come down with this. Men who are clean shaven will get it on their faces and necks, women on the inside of the forearm. Probably because they have so much work to do and loads of stuff to carry.
Ahemmmmm..
The other Pak was majoring in Vet Micro and would have had access to it. That was the one that stole it. Then he mailed it out to his comrade from the same home town, but who was majoring in Agronomy.
This building was on the north side of some railroad tracks and if you were on the south side of it and looked off to the north east, there was a large housing development. I thought at the time that it was not isolated enough.