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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6681)	10/9/2001 1:06:55 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 27666

Possible third case of anthrax... Second Anthrax Case Found in Fla. Victim's Co-Worker Infected; FBI Launches Massive Probe as Va. Monitors a Third Man washingtonpost.com In Virginia, officials said last night that they were monitoring a possible case of anthrax in a Northern Virginia man whose job may have brought him into contact with the company where the other two men worked. State and local officials said the Prince William County man entered the emergency room of Prince William Hospital in Manassas yesterday complaining of flu-like symptoms. Medical personnel on the scene responded quickly by performing tests to determine whether he had anthrax, meningitis or another disease, officials said.

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (6681)	10/9/2001 1:39:05 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 27666

I thought Karen's article was excellent as well, and posted it over on the Foreign Affairs Thread. People are getting too worked up about Anthrax; I'm sure we could find things more scary to be afraid of. the "Spanish Flu" which killed some 20-40 million people in 1918-19. Some of those folks reportedly would show Flu syptoms one afternoon, and die before the sun rose the next day. That would be much worse! I never used to catch the flu/colds until I had children, who spent time with other children. Got sick all the time. A contagious bug would certainly be something worse to fear than anthrax. But everyday more mundane things are probably what authorities fear the most right now. As an example, in Vancouver BC there is a man being held who another (convicted terrorist Ahmed Ressam) has testified that he planned to take a fuel tanker truck, a bomb, make it into a much bigger bomb on wheels, and blow up something in a "predominantly Jewish neighborhood in Canada". ugh.