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LONDON — Six heroin users in Scotland have died of anthrax poisoning, and more have fallen ill, British health authorities said last week. The suspected source of the anthrax is bone meal from Afghanistan. Heroin is usually diluted with other chemicals. In this case, authorities think Afghan middlemen used bone meal from livestock that could have contained dry anthrax spores.

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