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Strategies & Market Trends : Zeev's Turnips - No Politics
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (381)10/12/2001 10:00:37 PM
From: stomper  Read Replies (1) of 99280
 
There is between 2000 and 5000 total (all forms) of human anthrax infection yearly. The largest bulk of them are in Zimbabwe and several other African nations.

In the U.S. there are less than 5 cases of anthrax (diagnosed) yearly. As the last inhalation diagnosis was over 20 years ago, the several that are reported each year are typically cutaneous. Cutaneous anthrax has a mortality rate of 10-20% without treatment. With treatment mortality rate is less than 1%. Inhalation form has an 85% mortality rate, even with treatment.

I just don't wamt anyone to think that there are thousands of these cases a year in the U.S., and that it's no big deal. A one in five mortality rate is HUGE for an infection, and the man who died in FL had inhalation infection, so that strain is in fact out there.

We need to be vigilant, but honest with what's going on also.

-dave
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