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Anthrax: Connecticut Student Kept Samples, Authorities Charge Authorities yesterday charged a student at the University of Connecticut with keeping samples of anthrax at a campus laboratory (see GSN, July 12). Two vials with anthrax-contaminated animal tissue were found in Tomas Foral’s freezer at a campus laboratory in November, the Associated Press reported. Foral could be sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for possession of a biological weapons agent. The U.S. Attorney General’s Office, however, has said Foral may be allowed to participate in a program that might include community service. Officials said there is no known link between the spores and the Nov. 21 death of Connecticut resident Ottilie Lundgren — the fifth death in last fall’s anthrax attacks (see GSN, March 27). The samples discovered in Foral’s freezer would have needed further processing to create infectious spores, the FBI said (Matt Sedensky, Associated Press/Chicago Tribune, July 22).
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