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Tuesday, February 17, 2004

From The Winchester [VA] Star 2004 02 14:

A Winchester man who survived a 2001 anthrax-by-mail attack is asking the federal government for $12 million to compensate for the disruption to his life.

David R. Hose worked for the U.S. Department of State in Sterling as a supervisor for the incoming diplomatic pouch and mail unit. He had been employed there since 1995.

In October 2001, an envelope laced with anthrax spores and addressed to U.S. Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., arrived in Hose’s facility.
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But researchers have concluded that the weapons-grade, Ames-strain anthrax spores were probably made at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, Md., or at another laboratory working in the U.S. Defense Department’s germ warfare program, Hose’s claim states.

"The Defense Department had inadequate security measures in place to prevent such equipment from ending up in the hands of would-be bioterrorists," Hose’s claim states. "As the anthrax investigation continues, the evidence could ultimately establish that such negligence by the Defense Department was also a key ... cause of Mr. Hose’s injuries from inhalation anthrax."

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