Terrorist anthrax came from Texas cow, experts say

To Dr Michael L Vickers, a dead cow lying in a remote pasture of a South Texas ranch in 1981 was no different from the hundreds of other felled cattle he had seen.

Dr Vickers, who has a private veterinary practice in nearby Falfurrias, sliced out tissue from the animal the liver, the spleen and other organs put them into a plastic ice chest and sent them by bus to a laboratory in College Station, home of Texas A&M.