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(American Microbiologist and Vaccinologist) Bruce Edwards Ivins was an American microbiologist and senior biodefense researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. He was suspected by the FBI in connection with the 2001 anthrax attacks, which caused five fatalities and numerous injuries. Despite the FBI's assertion that Ivins was the sole perpetrator, many experts and officials disputed this conclusion. The National Academy of Sciences determined that the FBI had exaggerated the genetic evidence linking Ivins to the anthrax mailings.
