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To: unclewest who wrote (68910)1/26/2003 1:14:46 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Respond to of 281500
 
The army has conducted tests? When, where? And what happened. Were troops purposely exposed? I don't think so.
It is much more difficult to use anthrax and other biological agents in mass attacks than is often suggested by the media," McCarthy notes. Because of the difficulty in "weaponizing" biological agents, she concludes that even if the Florida incident does turn out to be some sort of attack, Americans have no reason to panic from an article re the anthrax attack in FLA October 2001. btw I posted facts about anthrax here about that time, but don't have time to search because the SI search doesn't go back that far, at least as far as I know.