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To: Jill who wrote (303)11/5/2001 1:15:13 AM
From: Snowshoe  Respond to of 827
 
More thoughts on the woman who died of anthrax in New York...

Uncovering an Epidemiological Enigma, Slowly
Scientists Hope for a Respite From New Cases of Anthrax
washingtonpost.com

No one knows how many people in the United States have come in contact with modest numbers of spores on their mail in the weeks since the Daschle letter was mailed, but the number could easily be in the thousands, scientists said. Science may eventually conclude that Nguyen was simply the statistically predictable one-person-in-thousands who got just enough spores -- and lacked just enough immunity -- to succumb to an otherwise insignificant exposure.