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Politics : Homeland Security
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To: RocketMan who wrote (734)12/12/2001 12:13:04 PM
From: Jill  Read Replies (2) of 827
 
Right. Spores are probably still all over contaminated post offices throughout the northeast. I guess what happened with cross contamination is they were pushed THROUGH an envelope into the inside, and then aerosolized if somebody opened the envelope (whoosh!).

Considering the nature of the spores, unless one lands on a cut, it's more likely to get inhalation than cutaneous. Thats been another curious aspect of this--naturally occurring anthrax, which is not as small or easily airborne--causes about 20 cases of cutaneous for every 1 of inhalation, as I recall. The #s were reversed here.
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