Report- Anthrax by mail was fresh

NEW YORK -- Scientists have concluded that anthrax sent through the mail last year was less than two years old, leading investigators to believe that whoever sent the germs could make more, according to a published report.

"It's modern," a government official told The New York Times in a story to be published Sunday. "It was grown, and therefore it can be grown again and again."

The age of the anthrax that killed five people and sickened more than a dozen last fall gives credence to the theory that the person who put anthrax-laced letters in the mail is connected to a microbiology lab.