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By Cynthia Kirk and Jerilyn Watson2011-11-21 Photo: AP Biohazard investigators outside the Dirksen Senate office building in Washington in October of 2001 BARBARA KLEIN: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special(特别的) English. Im Barbara Klein. CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: And Im Christopher Cruise. Today we tell about the deadly disease anthrax. (MUSIC) BARBARA KLEIN: Ten years have passed since letters containing（包含） anthrax bacteria （细菌）passed through the mail in the United States. The anthrax particles （粒子系统）looked like harmless white powder（粉末）. But the bacteria killed five people. No one knew