United States Army Medical Research Institute Of Infectious Diseases

Events (38)

• May 9, 1997: Potential Anthrax Attacks Patsy Assaad Loses Job at USAMRIID, Sues for Discrimination and Wrongful Termination 1997-05-09
• October 10-11, 2001: FBI Permits Destruction of Original Batch of Ames Strain Anthrax 2001-10-10
• November 30, 2001: US Report Suggests Anthrax Came from USAMRIID 2001-11-30
• December 9, 2001: FBI Still Has Not Questioned Some Possible Anthrax Attacks Suspects and Witnesses 2001-12-09
• February 8, 2002: FBI’s Anthrax Investigation Casts Wide Net, Despite Relatively Small Number of Likely Suspect Laboratories and Scientists 2002-02-08
• April 4, 2002: Former USAMRIID Commander on Anthrax Attacks: ‘A Lot of Good Has Come from It’ 2002-04-04
• May 2, 2002: DNA Sequencing Shows Anthrax Used in Attacks Most Likely Came from USAMRIID 2002-05-02
• June 23, 2002: Lax Security Alleged at USAMRIID; Scientists There Inexperienced with Dry Anthrax 2002-06-23
• June 25, 2002: FBI Searches Home of Anthrax Attacks Suspect Hatfill; Tips Off Media in Advance 2002-06-25
• August 1, 2002: FBI Names Hatfill as ‘Person of Interest’; Other FBI Agents Speculate Hatfill is Being Framed 2002-08-01
• August 18, 2002: FBI Linguistics Expert Expresses Frustration at Anthrax Investigation Problems 2002-08-18
• December 12-17, 2002: FBI Conducts Massive Search in Connection with Hatfill Investigation 2002-12-12
• July 16, 2004: Anthrax Investigators Search USAMRIID and Seize Anthrax Samples from Bruce Ivins 2004-07-16
• October 5, 2006: New Evidence Suggests Anthrax Used in 2001 Attacks Came from Northeast US 2006-10-05
• November 1, 2007: FBI Secretly Raids House of Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins, Bars Him from Access to Dangerous Toxins at USAMRIID 2007-11-01
• April 2005-July 10, 2008: Anthax Attacks Suspects Keeps USAMRIID Lab Access despite FBI Suspicions 2008-07-10
• July 10, 2008: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Is Permanently Barred from USAMRIID and Hospitalized 2008-07-10
• July 29, 2008: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Dies in Apparent Suicide 2008-07-29
• August 3-18, 2008: Experts Disagree If Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Had Skills to Make Anthrax Used in Attacks 2008-08-03
• August 5, 2008: Former UN Weapons Inspector Doubts FBI’s Case Against Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins 2008-08-05
• April 22, 2010: Ivins’ Colleague Tells National Academy of Sciences It Was Impossible for Ivins to Have Perpetrated Attacks 2010-04-22
• February 15, 2011: FBI-Funded Anthrax Science Review Does Not Find Conclusive Link to Ivins 2011-02-15
• Before October 2001: Poor Security at US Bio-Weapons Labs
• December 2001: FBI Questions USAMRIID Scientists about Anthax Attacks
• 1991-1992: Possible Link between Racist Harassment at USAMRIID and Later Anthrax Attacks
• 1997: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Develops Anthrax Said to Be Used in Attacks, but as Many as 300 People Have Access to It
• 2000-2001: USAMRIID Scientists Have Trouble with Anthrax Vaccine; FBI Will Later Call This the Motive for Anthrax Attacks, Suspect Ivins
• Early 1992: Anthax at USAMRIID Goes Missing; Possible Link to Potential Patsy for Anthrax Attacks
• December 2001-May 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Cleans Up Anthrax Traces near His Desk, Delays Report on It
• Early 2003-2005: Scientists Gradually Able to Identify Unique Signiature to Anthrax Used in 2001 Attacks
• Early 2004: Early Scientific Results Suggest Anthrax Used in Attacks Came from USAMRIID
• Late October 2002: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Drinks Himself to Death
• Late 2001: Security Records Point Suspicion at Scientist Bruce Ivins
• Late 2001: FBI Anthrax Investigation Begins Focusing on about 50 to 100 US Scientists as Suspects, Including Steven Hatfill
• Mid-October 2001: Future Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Helps Handle Anthrax Letters for FBI Investigation
• Late 2005-2006: Investigators Determine about 100 Scientists Used Anthrax Matching that in 2001 Attacks, Including Bruce Ivins
• Late 2006: Anthrax Attacks Suspect Ivins Suspects FBI Is Targeting Him, Says He Is Being Set Up
• 1997-September 1999: Steven Hatfill’s Two Year USAMRID Contract Ends, Ending His Contact with Suspected Anthrax Strain