31.   The Leahy letter sat in a plastic trash bag while investigators painstakingly devised a strategy to protect themselves and the public from potentially deadly anthrax spores.

32.   The incident followed a spate of deadly anthrax attacks in the United States linked to mail tainted with the bacteria.

33.   The newspaper Yediot Ahronot, citing a foreign report, wrote of hundreds of bottles of deadly anthrax toxin being stored in refrigerators at the institute.

34.   The prospect of a major U.S. military campaign against terrorism comes as the Pentagon grows ever closer to running out vaccine for the deadly anthrax virus.

35.   The scare comes after traces of potentially deadly anthrax were found in several pieces of mail in the United States, raising concerns around the world.

36.   The scares come after traces of potentially deadly anthrax were found in several pieces of mail in the United States, raising concerns around the world.

37.   Vickers said he was not surprised that the spores used in the deadly anthrax attacks came from Texas.

38.   Almost two dozen cattle have been killed by the deadly anthrax virus in northwestern Mongolia, Xinhua reported Saturday.

39.   Five people have died in the United States from letters laced with the deadly anthrax bacteria that have been sent to US senators and media organizations since early October.

40.   Potentially deadly anthrax spores sent by mail to top US media and political figures may have come from a domestic source, the White House said Monday.