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CDC confirms anthrax in letter to Chile Return address was Orlando BY TIM JOHNSON AND CASSIO FURTADO tjohnson@krwashington.com The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday that a letter sent to a pediatrician in the Chilean capital of Santiago contained traces of anthrax, the first known case of an anthrax-tainted letter received outside the United States. The letter bore a postmark from Zurich, Switzerland, but it had a return address from Orlando. It was mailed to Dr. Antonio Banfi, authorities said, but neither he nor anyone in his office has become sick from the letter. After positive preliminary ...

Scientists Decode Anthrax 'Fingerprint' New York Times: Breakthrough Could Help Indentify Bioterrorists Nov. 28, 2001 AP / CBS (CBS) Scientists have decoded the genome of the anthrax bacterium in a breakthrough that could offer clues about who has been using the microbe as a deadly weapon, the New York Times reported Wednesday. The newspaper said researchers at the Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Md., had decoded the genomes of two anthrax microbes of the Ames strain, which was used in attacks that have killed five Americans and seriously sickened others. The genome provides a kind of "fingerprint" of the anthrax ...

BERN, Switzerland (AP) -- A suspected anthrax letter sent to Chile bore a Swiss postmark but may have been mailed from New York, Swiss police said Wednesday. Dr. Antonio Banfi, a pediatrician in Santiago, Chile, received the letter -- with a Swiss postmark and a Florida return address -- two weeks ago in what may be the first confirmed case of anthrax-contaminated mail outside the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention initially confirmed the contamination last week and was conducting further tests to determine whether the suspected spores in the letter to Banfi was from the same ...

Anthrax in Letter Mailed to Chile Does Not Match Strain Found in Letters Received in US, Investigators Say By Laura Meckler Associated Press Writer Published: Nov 28, 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) - Anthrax found in a letter mailed to Chile is not from the same as the strain discovered in letters received in the United States, investigators said Wednesday. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said further tests were needed to determine whether the anthrax specimen they tested came from the letter mailed to a Chilean doctor or if it was contaminated by the Chilean lab that performed ...