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Politics : Homeland Security
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To: Jill who wrote (34)10/26/2001 7:30:35 AM
From: RocketMan  Read Replies (2) of 827
 
"Studies on monkeys, as well as on wool sorters and hide handlers years ago, had suggested that inhalation anthrax occurs only when thousands of spores make their way deep into the lungs. Like so many aspects of the recent outbreak, however, even that belief may face new scrutiny."

That's from today's Washington Post article, "More Complications in Medical Mystery," following the State Dept mail worker case.

So, let's see... so far we've found that the problem

- wasn't drinking water from a North Carolina stream
- wasn't just a few isolated cutaneous cases
- had some relationship to the terrorist act of 9-11-01
- involved more than garden variety clumped anthrax
- involves finely machined anthrax that can be inhaled
- is serious enough that mail handlers must be treated
- might be caught with less than thousands of spores

All of which are ideas a few of us expressed on these boards days before the govt experts came to the same conclusions, but it took serious illness or death for them to come to that. How can a bunch of bumblers on an investment board be so far ahead of the experts whose job it is to protect the public? Maybe they know so much that they can't think outside the envelope, no pun intended. Maybe what is needed is more common sense.
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