Anthrax Scare Hit British Embassy in Sri LankaThe Anthrax scare hit the British High Commission in Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Tuesday as it has become the fifth foreign mission here to receive suspicious letters."We received one letter containing a white powder but no one was exposed," a spokesman for the British High Commission said. On Monday the French Embassy and Indian High Commission received letters containing white powder suspected as the anthrax. Claudia Delma-Scherer, Deputy Head of Mission at the French Embassy said that a French diplomat who opened the envelope is being treated with antibiotics as a precautionary measure and the room where the letter was opened was sealed off. Similar suspicious letters have also been found in the Australian High Commission and the U.S. embassy in Colombo last week and investigation is still underway. Earlier this week, the Sri Lankan Health Ministry appointed a 12-member task force to draw up a program of precautionary measures to combat any outbreak of Anthrax. The report of a special study shows that there is no threat for the country to be hit by the deadly anthrax bacillus. |
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