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To: Snowshoe who wrote (710)	12/4/2001 9:56:12 AM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

The NY Times carries a piece today about the fact that tens of thousnads of letters have probably been cross contaminated, and that even a small amount of cross contamination CAN be lethal, though the risk is quite small. They now know that letters to neighbors of both Lundgren and Nyugen went through the sorting machines within seconds of the anthrax letters. That means they can find who else got cross contaminated mail but they aren't going to bother. How is it that it took the CDC this long to figure out what we had figured out at the beginning--? And why don't they give a FF about regular citizens or postal workers? They should have figured this out at the beginning and told the public to be extra cautious. ANd even tho Lundgren was 94 she sounded pretty healthy--her doctor said she was a marvel--she went out to dinner 3 x a week, swam, walked etc. So I still wonder about the suppressed immunity theory (I mean--there are lots of ill people at home opening their mail--people on immunosuppresants for instance, anybody with organ transplants and they didn't get sick). I tend to think its more the way all microbes are--some people have a genetic vulnerability