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Jim Urquhart

Nation, News

May 30, 2015

Anthrax shipments came from military site in Utah desert

By BRADY McCOMBS, Associated Press ROBERT BURNS, Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Army's mistaken shipment of live anthrax samples to government and commercial laboratories occurred at a military post in a desolate stretch of the

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