US military accidentally shipped live Anthrax sample to lab

The US military accidentally shipped at least one live Anthrax sample to a commercial lab in Maryland but there was no public threat from the mishap, a defence official said today.

A Defense Department laboratory in Utah had "inadvertently" transferred the live Anthrax sample to a commercial lab and government health authorities were still testing other samples that had been shipped to laboratories in nine other states, the official told reporters.