Sentence examples for anthrax powder from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stevens, 62, died on Oct. 5, 2001, days after inhaling anthrax powder at work.

You can produce a very good grade of anthrax powder in the lab.

Vegetative cells in dry anthrax powder are generally dead and therefore harmless, experts said.

Whoever had ignited panic with a tablespoon of anthrax powder, officials assumed, would not stop there.

A sample of anthrax powder was reportedly found in Zawahiri's house in Afghanistan.

"I know of no case of the United States saying that it has made anthrax powder," she said.

In addition to particle size, federal experts are investigating whether the anthrax powders have electrostatic charges that affect dispersal and chemical coatings meant to increase potency and shelf life.

Paradoxically, the apparently high grade of at least some of the dry anthrax powders also helps, said Dr. David R. Franz, former commander of the Army's germ-defense laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., and now vice president for chemical and biological defense at the Southern Research Institute, an arm of the University of Alabama.

Thus, exposure to anthrax powders with much greater spore concentrations than evident either in Swerdlovsk or the U.S. postal attacks could lead to shorter incubation distributions.

She had contracted anthrax from powder in a letter she opened in late September.

The scientific chase began in late 2001 as the first person to contract anthrax from powder in a letter lay dying in a Florida hospital.