Biosecurity

Utah lab that shipped anthrax has a long history with the disease and weapon

In retrospect, Dugway Proving Ground could have done a better job detonating anthrax-laced bombs over monkeys.It was 1955. Dugway, the U.S. Army testing center in Utah's West Desert, wanted to know how lethal anthrax could be. So anthrax was loaded into bomblets. The bomblets were dropped from an airplane in the vicinity of 285 monkeys that were brought onto Dugway.A 2010 report by the Environmental Protection Agency raised questions about the scientific quality of the tests.