Pentagon sends live anthrax spores ‘accidentally’ to nine labs

‘The US military says it accidentally sent live anthrax spores to as many as nine laboratories and is investigating how that happened.

There was no public threat from the mishap, a Pentagon official claimed on Wednesday.

The labs were supposed to receive dead anthrax samples for research use.

One anthrax sample was also shipped off to a US military base in South Korea, according to the Pentagon.’