On Sunday, October 21, 2001, at 06:02 PM, David Honig wrote:
At 02:56 PM 10/21/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
The media hype also tends to ignore the fact that anthrax is, in the forms detected to date, largely treatable. Gross attempts at containment (expensive) are less advisable than identification and treatment of exposed individuals (less expensive).
Once the person has enough symptoms to seek treatment, I think they're toast. We'll see. Maybe all USPO workers will be given 60 days of Cipro. If they're the only ones to survive, the species is fucked.
I saw the Sturgeon General explaining that "we now have better treatment methods." I thought he might have been right, inasmuch as we had heard that Victim #2, in Florida, was mending nicely from inhalation anthrax. Ah, but it now looks like #2 was not a real case of inhalational anthrax. (I don't count the half dozen subcutaneous cases, or any of the "one spore was picked up on a swab" cases.) It looks like this Maryland case is a real Case #2. If he survives, it'll mean the Sturgeon General was right to say we now can handle anthrax. But I expect he's a goner. --Tim May "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -- Nietzsche