Widow of anthrax victim sues Army lab for $50 million
Emergency Management Alert, September 28, 2003
The widow of a photo editor killed in the first anthrax attack during the fall of 2001 sued the federal government on September 24, alleging that poor security at an Army lab caused his death, the Associated Press reports.
Maureen Stevens seeks more than $50 million, claiming the government is accountable for producing and mishandling the deadly anthrax strain. Authorities believe Robert Stevens, an editor for The Sun tabloid, contracted anthrax from a tainted letter sent to the Boca Raton, FL, headquarters of American Media.
Anthrax was also sent through the mail to media outlets in New York and a congressional building in Washington, killing four others and sickening more than a dozen. No one has been charged in the attacks.
The Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, MD, is the primary handler of the strain of anthrax found in envelopes sent to the victims.
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