Abbott Laboratories, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and GlaxoSmithKline have offered to donate as much medicine as anthrax victims actually need.

He is notable in the medical community for his treatment of anthrax victims during the 2001 anthrax attacks in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area of the United States.

Years after the attack, several anthrax victims reported lingering health problems including fatigue, shortness of breath and memory loss.

Through it all, the drumroll of anthrax victims continued.

"I can't see a guy who gave us $100 saying, 'I don't want that money helping those three families of anthrax victims.' "

Two months after the death of Robert Stevens, the first of the nation's anthrax victims, new tests at his Florida workplace reveal a pattern of pervasive contamination that mystifies investigators.

Virtually all the other anthrax victims fell into a pattern.

An additional 400 suspected anthrax victims were seen at St. Francis Hospital in Trenton.

In the month since the first anthrax victims became ill in Florida, lawmakers and experts have repeatedly raised questions about the security of the nation's laboratories.

In October, amid news reports about the first anthrax victims, Dr. Tsonas, like other doctors, threw himself into learning more about the disease.