Tyson also reports on something many people may have forgotten: the anthrax attacks that occurred in the weeks after 9/11. He traces how scientists tracked the anthrax back to its apparent point of origin and identified the man most likely to have had some involvement.

Alas, we may never know for sure, because he committed suicide.

On the third line I believe it says B97-05 which I believe refers to Vegetative cell/spore challenge in rabbits – Rabbits were immunized with AVA at 0 and 4 weeks, then challenged at 10 weeks subcutaneously with and LD99 of either Ames spores or Ames encapsulated, vegetative cells.

Bruce Ivins wrote an email dated January 14, 2000 titled “AVA Info for CDC” in which he provides AVA vaccination info for an upcoming CDC meeting.

Maybe rather than initials referring to initials or organizations, it is a similiar reference. One of his supervisors or someone else in the lab would know.

As another example, B98-03 – involved a Challenge of rabbits with spores of highly virulent strains – Rabbits were immunized at 0 and 4 weeks, then aerosol challenged at 10 weeks with spores from one of 6 different B. anthracis strains (the equivalent of about 1,000 to 2,000 Ames spore LD50s).

Total Survivors/Total Challenged
57/59

One group was challenged subcutaneously with the equivalent of 1,000 Ames LD50s (Zimbabwe strain).

They have sent many megabytes of documents in the last hour or two and will continue to make productions on an ongoing basis. Whoever would like a copies emailed, let me know.

http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com