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Just trying to figure out if these two stories are somehow linked:

Pentagon: Military mistakenly shipped live anthrax samples from Utah — Robert Burns | The Associated Press | sltrib.com

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday it is investigating what the Pentagon called an inadvertent shipment of live anthrax spores from Utah to at least one, and perhaps as many as nine, laboratories that expected to receive dead spores.

" 'At this time, we do not suspect any risk to the general public,' CDC spokeswoman Kathy Harben said.

A Pentagon spokesman, Col. Steve Warren, said the suspected live anthrax samples were shipped from Dugway Proving Ground, an Army facility in western Utah, using a commercial delivery service. ..."

"Fewer grants and slipping clinical revenue are a double threat to the future of medicine, University of Utah Senior Vice President for Health Sciences Vivian Lee said Wednesday.

"Lee is joining a national campaign to boost federal research funding. She and nearly two dozen of her counterparts from medical schools nationwide advocated for more government money in a policy paper published Wednesday. The medical school deans say their institutions need more steady and predictable funding indexed to inflation.

"To find treatments and cures, 'the nation needs to invest in research,' Lee, a co-author, said in a prepared statement. ..."