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Morning the packages that are being shipped to you may have come in contact with a deadly anthrax bacteria. the pentagon revealing that those live anthrax samples were sent through fedex. 18 labs across nine states have received the shipments. one in south korea as well. 26 people in total are now being treated for possible anthrax exposure. meantime the cdc is still in the process of locating and collecting all of the samples and officials insist there is not a risk to the general public. and...

Im zain arbor. >> and im errol barnett. this is "cnn newsroom." >> right now, u.s. military and health officials are looking into how live samples of anthrax were accidentally shipped to military installations in the u.s. and to one base overseas. the shipments were part of a research project to develop a test for biological threats. >> here is what we know so far. at least two dozen u.s. military personnel are now undergoing precautionary treatments because they may, i want to emphasize the wor...

And it is considered highly lethal and not ever supposed to happen and safeguards are supposed to be in place. and jim sciutto joins me with the latest. what do we know about the mistake. >> it is an almost inexplicable failure. four workers have put under post exposure theemt to anthrax. this does show the level of concern it. was a site in maryland that tested the sample and found out it was live and raised at letter for the eight other states. but a foreign base in korea and stated the remain...

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>> the centers for disease control now investigating as officials reveal samples were shipped under less rigorous conditions since it was believed the bacteria was dead. nbc news reporting fed ex transported the samples. fed ex tells cnn theyre working with officials to gather information. >> no known risk to the general public and no suspected or confirmed cases of anthrax infection. >> this comes less than a year after a similar mishap at the centers for disease control. they shipped what they...

Undergo the precautionary medical treatment you are referring to. that include getting tested, being given antibiotics and in some cases being given vaccinations. the alarm was raised back in the united states. the sample originated from a lab in utah. it sent live samples that should have been inactive to the, the training base here. and also to nine other states in the united states. it was a maryland based lab that raised the alarm. and then had this urgent review of all of these places where...

33 past the hour. "usa today," they thought it was inactive but they were wrong. live anthrax went out to research facilities in nine states and military base in south korea. the mixup came when they sent what they thought were inactive samples. a lab in maryland discovered it was alive and still deadly. defense officials stress that there is no risk to the general public and no confirmed reports of anthrax exposure. four civilian lab workers in the u.s. are taking medication as a precaution alo...

And a lab based in maryland received the live samples and raised the alarm. it was ones when day here that an emergency response team destroyed the sample being used here. but by then the 22 people may have already have been exposed. >> kathy, not the first time we have heard of these mistakes being made in relation to potentially deadly substances. could this perhaps lead to -- tighter precautions being put in place to prevent this from perhaps happening again? >> rosemary, thats right. just ju...

Very serious, of course life-threatening potential disease here. infection here. thats an open question. were they handing this stuff after the discovery and why that delay before they were treated? its a real problem, and its one reason why theyre investigating this closely. >> these live anthrax samples, they were sent through fedex, what was the theory behind that? >> well when if theyre neutralized samples, they ship them with precautions that would make that safe but when theyre live sample...

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