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The FBI was draining a municipal pond Monday in a search for evidence of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks.The FBI said in a statement that it and the Postal Service were conducting forensic searches ... related to the investigation of the origin of the anthrax-laced letters mailed in September and October 2001. The purpose of these searches is to locate and collect items of evidence related to the attacks, the statement said. Based on extensive environmental testing already conducted, there is no indication of any threat to public health or safety associate
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stanley cup . CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports the theory behind the pond probe is that the person responsible for the anthrax attacks assembled the letters underwater to avoid exposing himself to the dangerous spores.Nancy Poss, a city spokeswoman, confirmed Monday morning that the work was taking place. She had no further details. Mayor Jennifer Dougherty said last month that FBI agents had discussed with city officials a plan to drain the spring-fed pond. It was among the first of about a dozen that divers searched in December and Jan
stanley borraccia uary.The city said the FBI had hired an engineering firm to drain the one-acre pond, which holds about 50,000 gallons of water, in the municipal forest that is part of the city s water supply system. It said the work was expected to take three to four weeks.A roadblock kept nonresidents out of the wooded area, which contains hiking trails. From the air, ab Asfz A 17-Year-Old s Strange Life
The deadly fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has been wiping out amphibian species across the globe for decades. But how did this global environmental disaster get started A new study suggests that it came from doctors importing frogs for
stanley tumbler use in pregnancy tests. Since the 1980s, amphibian species have experienced a sharp decline in their numbers. Some estimates suggest that 400 or more amphibian species have gone extinct or near extinct since the die-offs began. Scientists eventually pinpointed the major cause of the devastation: chytridiomycosis, a disease brought on by an infectio
stanley sverige n by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd. When Bd fins its away into an amphibian, it severely thickens the animal skin, disrupting its ability to breathe and take in nutrients. Some species have a 100 percent mortality rate 鈥?but others survive the infection, seemingly unaffected by the fungus. One Bd-resistant species is the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis . About a decade ago scientists suspected that this particular species may have served as a carrier, and facilitated the spread of chytridiomycosis, when they found Bd in a museum specimen dating back to 1934. And now, a new analysis now links the spread of the fungus in the U.S. with the spread of X. laevis, which initially began in the early 1900s. You see, at this time people were importing large numbers of the amphibian for use in research and to use as pets. Doctors eventually discovered th
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