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To: Jill who wrote (693)	11/30/2001 10:08:07 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 827

I am wondering if maybe more people die of inhalation anthrax every year than we realize because nobody ever tests for it. The genetic tests they are doing only sample eight places on the DNA - maybe they need to sample more or different places to make sure it's the same strain of anthrax. This is, of course, very far-fetched, but the death of the woman in Connecticut is so far-fetched that there doesn't seem to be a reasonable explanation. Alternative hypothesis, which probably would seem even more far-fetched to someone actually living in either Massachusetts or Connecticut, is some kind of bizarre connection to the doctor who disappeared. How far apart are their places of residence? Maybe he sent the letters in order to get more funding for research, and then committed suicide out of remorse? Or maybe a colleague did and he found out so the colleague staged a "suicide"? I have read the hypothesis that the person who sent the anthrax was hoping that more money would be spent on research. But the doctor who disappeared was a specialist in viruses, not bacteria.

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