In an article with the headline "US Army operated biological weapons in Germany," Berlin daily Bild revealed that the US military used deadly live anthrax spores in military exercises.
The German defense ministry told the newspaper that the spores were not sent to any German military laboratories. The US military previously admitted that since 2005 it sent anthrax spores to South Korea, Australia and Canada, but not Germany.
"According to current information, Bundeswehr servicemen were not put in danger," the German defense ministry claimed in an inquiry to Bild.
The spores were supposed to be neutralized at the Dugway Proving Ground in the US state of Utah before being sent to the exercises, but the incident made "some spores even more active," according to the newspaper.
