WASHINGTON, May 28 (UPI) -- Some 22 personnel at a U.S. airbase in South Korea may have been exposed to live anthrax after the U.S. Department of Defense mistakenly shipped out samples, officials said.
The samples sent from a U.S. Army lab at the Dugway Proving Ground, near Salt Lake City, to Osan Air Base were expected to be inert and harmless to use in a laboratory training exercise. Instead, the personnel possibly exposed were provided "appropriate medical precautionary measures to include examinations, antibiotics and in some instances, vaccinations."