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Politics : Homeland Security
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (689)11/30/2001 9:56:10 AM
From: Jill  Read Replies (1) of 827
 
A spore is 1-3 microns. An envelope hole is 100 microns. Its very unlikely they'd get jammed in the envelope.

And there'd be a trail of cross contamination, if there were that many spores--in mailbags, in mailboxes, on other mail, in the postal machines above all. There was none.

In addition, cutaneous usually occurs far more often. We saw those inhalation cases partly because of the weaponized small spores, but also because the postal workers had a unique method of exposure (whoosh! sorting machines!). For nobody on the paper/mail trail to either lady to get cutaneous is weird.

I do not believe those 2 cases are mail.
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