Anthrax Victim’s Widow Files $50-Million Claim
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Maureen Stevens, the widow of an anthrax victim, filed a $50-million wrongful-death claim with the government, alleging that lax security at a Maryland Army base allowed the theft of the deadly strain -- even though it hasn’t been proved that the anthrax was stolen from there.
Robert Stevens died Oct. 5, 2001, after apparently inhaling anthrax from a tainted letter in Boca Raton.
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