LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Universal Detection Technology (http://www.udetection.com) (OTCBB:UDTT) (Frankfurt:P08), a developer and provider of early-warning monitoring technologies to protect people from bioterrorism and radiological weapons, commented today on the recent fatality caused by inhalation anthrax in the United Kingdom. The fatality was caused by a man playing or handling a drum made of animal skin, and is the second such case in the past year after three people were infected with anthrax in Connecticut in September. UDTT is a supplier of handheld kits designed to detect all strains of Anthrax, which include less virulent naturally occurring strains as well as virulent strains such as the Ames strain that was used in the 2001 Anthrax mailings.
