Sunday, August 06, 2006

ATCC strain 14578

From the Iraq Survey Group Final Report dated September 30 2004 (AKA the Comprehensive Report of the Special Advisor to the DCI on Iraq’s WMD):

ISG continued to gain more insight into B. anthracis work done before 1991, which reinforced the findings of UNSCOM detailed below. However, no new information has been obtained on B. anthracis-specific R&D conducted after the 1996 destruction of Al Hakam.

  • Thamir 'Abd-al-Rahman, a key figure in Iraq's anthrax work pre-1991, told ISG that he attempted to obtain the Ames strain of B. anthracis which he considered "very virulent" while attending a scientific workshop in 1989, but he was unsuccessful in that endeavor. Iraq declared researching different strains of B. anthracis, but settled on the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) strain 14578 as the exclusive strain for use as a BW.

https://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd_2004/chap6.html

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