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To: WhatsUpWithThat who wrote (5908)	10/8/2001 10:57:06 AM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 48461

>ALERT< New Anthrax Case in Florida MIAMI (Reuters) - A co-worker of the Florida man who died of anthrax last week has tested positive for the extremely rare disease that experts say could be used as a biological warfare agent, officials said on Monday. Health officials last week described the case of the man who died as an isolated one that was not a biological attack. But the FBI said on Monday it was urgently investigating the source of the infections. ``Every step is being taken to quickly identify the bacteria's source and determine how the two individuals were infected,'' the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement. State health officials said the second case tested positive but was not ill with anthrax. ``A gentleman who worked with the other patient had a cotton swab taken of his nose and that tested positive but he does not have the illness,'' said Frank Penela, a spokesman for the Florida Department of Health. News of the second case came as the United States was on high alert for possible attacks by the al Qaeda network associated with Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. Washington blames bin Laden and al Qaeda for the Sept. 11 hijacking attacks on New York and Washington that killed more than 5,500 people. Officials said the risks were even higher after Sunday's air strikes by U.S. and British forces against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and al Qaeda training camps in that country. The FBI said the building where British-born Robert Stevens, who died on Friday, and the other individual worked had been sealed and would be examined by public health and law enforcement personnel. Stevens, of Lantana, Florida, was a photographer for the supermarket tabloid The Sun. It was not immediately clear what the affected co-worker did. Penela, of the state Health Department, said the co-worker was being treated preventively with antibiotics at an undisclosed hospital. He was tested as part of the surveillance mounted after Stevens became ill last week, Penela added. Public health and U.S. government officials last week described Stevens' exposure to anthrax as an isolated incident, and said they had no reason to believe the case had resulted from a biological assault. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told reporters on Thursday there was no evidence of a biological warfare assault involving anthrax, a deadly bacterial disease spread by spores and generally confined to sheep, cattle, horses, goats and pigs. The disease is not contagious. Stevens contracted pulmonary anthrax, which has not been seen in the United States since 1976. But evidence of a second case involving the rare disease escalated the urgency of the investigation, officials said. The FBI said it was working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta to help locate the source of the bacteria in Florida. Several of the suspected hijackers involved in the Sept. 11 attack lived in Florida for a time, where some of them gathered information on the use of crop-dusting planes, according to investigators. Officials feared those attempts might have been linked to planning for a possible biological or chemical weapons attack. This is pretty serious, kind of makes some of the statements made by the the "authorities" about the original case seem like little white lies. They have a problem, and are trying to keep a lid on it, 'cause this could lead to a real panick. 2 cases in 25 years, and they happen now? Where there is smoke, there is fire..