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To: Jill who wrote (616)	11/20/2001 9:58:36 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

Just finished watching the Jenny Lopez special, you know how I'm fixated on her :-) Now, about the new anthrax case: "It's difficult to explain how the person contracted anthrax," Connecticut Gov. John Rowland said. "There is no evidence they contracted the disease as a result of a criminal act." Right, I'm sure it was just a normal act, maybe she drank some of that stream water in North Carolina ... Meanwhile, on the Leahy spore counting front: An FBI microbiologist, speaking on condition of anonymity, said there were easily billions of anthrax spores in the letter. Scientists have said 8,000 to 10,000 spores are enough to infect a person with inhalation anthrax. An investigator who found the Leahy letter in unopened congressional mail last Friday could feel powder inside the envelope, the microbiologist said. A two-minute test of the garbage bag that held the Leahy letter detected 23,000 anthrax spores, he said. All yesterday the news was reporting 23,000 spores, now it's up to billions. Must be Washington budget people counting, they always turn thousands into billions before you know it.