LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — About 30 vials of the plague that were reported missing at Texas Tech University were found Wednesday in a mysterious episode that triggered a terrorism-alert plan and showed how jittery Americans are over the threat of a biological attack. The FBI refused to say how or where the vials were found. However, an FBI official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said authorities believe the samples of the lethal bacteria were simply destroyed and not properly accounted for, rather than stolen or misplaced.
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