Introduction
Bruce Edwards Ivins was an American vaccinologist, microbiologist, and a senior biodefense researcher stationed at the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in the United States. He was the key suspect of the anthrax attacks that occurred in 2001 in Maryland. From mid-October, Bruce Edwards Ivins and his colleagues tested samples to make a distinction between the real anthrax hoaxes that were sent to the government and newsrooms during this period. Ivins helped the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to analyse the material recovered from one of the tainted envelopes. He committed suicide on July 29, 2008 after an overdose ...
