V. Appendix
LABORATORIES THAT HAVE WORKED WITH THE AMES STRAIN OF ANTHRAX
(Information obtained from open sources)
1. USAMRID # +
2. Dugway Proving Ground (Utah) # * +
3. Naval Research Medical Center/Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and other associated military labs (MD) #
4. Battelle Memorial Institute (Ohio; plus laboratories in many other locations) # * +
5. Duke University Medical School, Clinical Microbiology Lab (NC)
6. VA Medical Center, Durham (NC)
7. USDA laboratory and Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames (Iowa)
8. LSU College of Veterinary Medicine * +
9. Northern Arizona State University (Arizona) * +
10. Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IL)
11. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque (NM) * +
12. Chemical and Biological Defense Establishment, Porton Down (UK) * +
13. CAMR, Porton (UK) *
14. Defense Research Establishment, Suffield (CA) * +
15. BioPort Corp (MI)
In addition, CDC, NIH, Los Alamos and a few others may have the Ames strain; the Institute for Genomic Research (MD) says they have the Ames DNA but not the bacteria.
# indicates laboratories in the US that are estimated to be more likely than the others to have weaponization capabilities
* Obtained through a FOIA request by the Washington Post (article Nov 30, 01)
+ indicates acknowledged recipients of the Ames strain from USAMRIID
LABORATORIES THAT HAVE WORKED WITH THE AMES STRAIN OF ANTHRAX
(Information obtained from open sources)
1. USAMRID # +
2. Dugway Proving Ground (Utah) # * +
3. Naval Research Medical Center/Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and other associated military labs (MD) #
4. Battelle Memorial Institute (Ohio; plus laboratories in many other locations) # * +
5. Duke University Medical School, Clinical Microbiology Lab (NC)
6. VA Medical Center, Durham (NC)
7. USDA laboratory and Iowa State College of Veterinary Medicine, Ames (Iowa)
8. LSU College of Veterinary Medicine * +
9. Northern Arizona State University (Arizona) * +
10. Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute (IL)
11. University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque (NM) * +
12. Chemical and Biological Defense Establishment, Porton Down (UK) * +
13. CAMR, Porton (UK) *
14. Defense Research Establishment, Suffield (CA) * +
15. BioPort Corp (MI)
In addition, CDC, NIH, Los Alamos and a few others may have the Ames strain; the Institute for Genomic Research (MD) says they have the Ames DNA but not the bacteria.
# indicates laboratories in the US that are estimated to be more likely than the others to have weaponization capabilities
* Obtained through a FOIA request by the Washington Post (article Nov 30, 01)
+ indicates acknowledged recipients of the Ames strain from USAMRIID