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By Steve Davis
08 Sep 2010

Passenger causing Thursday airport shutdown was at center of 2003 plague scare

Public health
A passenger on a flight back from Saudi Arabia appeared to be carrying a suspicious canister -- and TSA security checkers became even more alarmed when they realized that the passenger was the scientist who sparked a bioterrorism scare after he reported missing vials of plague samples in 2003; between 100 and 200 passengers were evacuated from four of the airport's six concourses; airport roadways and a hotel near the airport's international terminal were closed down

The suspicions airport security officials had when they saw the metal canister grew when they learned about the individual who brought it in from the Middle East: a scientist who sparked a bioterrorism scare after he reported missing vials of plague samples seven years ago.

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