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To: Mephisto who wrote (1148)	11/25/2001 6:27:50 PM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15516

Greetings from Lake Tahoe!! We are having some much needed rain and snow. We are at 6200 ft elevation which got several inches of snow and rain mixed. At the higher elevations above 7000ft there was accumulations of up to 2 feet! "when I wonder if a mad scientist is experimenting with Anthrax." I have a feeling that you may not be far off. She may have something in her house that may have had some contact with the lab of a crazy scientist. She is quite elderl y and her immune system is certainly not the same as someone younger so she may not need to inhale as many spores as a normal person. She may have some remote connection to the anthrax perpetrator such as some medicine that came into contact with some spores. Maybe the lab that is making the anthrax is located close to a pharmaceutical company. Lots of maybe's but one thing is for sure.......she came into close contact with a rotten apple. Have to make this short because this laptop is acting up. I will write more about my theory when I get back to my main home in the Bay area.

To: Mephisto who wrote (1148)	11/25/2001 9:28:45 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 15516

I saw your post reposted over at GW Bush site. A friend had an interesting theory about this old lady who died; she could have contracted the anthrax digging in her garden. She could have breathed spores she's breathed forever but her immune system failed her this time because she was too old, too frail. It could be that thousands of extremely old folks who supposedly succumb to respiratory failure actually died from their bodies' inability to fight off exposure to minute particles of anthrax... who ever thought to check for anthrax before? No one. No one ever autopsies a 94 year old woman. Why this time? It's ludicrous... Then again, you could read The Cobra Event... about an anthrax like deadly disease...here's a review: Amazon.com In New York City in the late '90s, a 17-year-old girl heads off to her private school even though she has a cold. By art class her nose is gushing mucus and she's severely disoriented. Within seconds, it seems, she's in convulsions and, most bizarrely, can't stop biting herself. All the reader can do is hope she'll die quickly, but Kate Moran's body still has a few more disgusting turns to undergo, and Richard Preston--a Jacobean master of ceremonies par excellence--takes us through them in bizarre and bloody detail. Clearly, whatever Kate had was a head cold with a scientific vengeance. Preston's heroine, Alice Austen, a doctor with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, realizes--in the first of several gripping autopsy scenes--that the girl's nervous system had been virtually destroyed. So far, only one other person is known to have died in the same way, but he was a homeless man. Austen must connect the two cases, seemingly linked only by the subway, before the media gets hold of them and drums up a paranoia-fest--and before the virus's creator can kill again. The Cobra Event is itself a paranoia-fest, a provocative thriller that makes you wonder exactly how much bioterrorism is taking place in the real world. Preston, best known for his terrifying chronicle of the Ebola virus, The Hot Zone, and other impeccably researched nonfictions, is not content to create fast-paced nightmarish scenes. His novel is instead a complex morality tale anchored in uncomfortable fact. Preston is keen to convey the "invisible history" of bioweapons engineering and, equally, to show the unsung heroism of his scientific detectives (along with that of the nurses and technicians who literally sacrifice their lives for medicine).