Karsten writes:
There is a vaccine for anthrax. It's not generally distributed, though military and vetinary personnel may receive it.
The vaccine has not been proven safe and effective, nor released for use in the general population. The military has to take it because they are ordered to. I believe it was mentioned that the anthrax currently being mailed is the "Ames" strain, first discovered in Ames, Iowa, and of interest to researchers because the vaccine is spectacularly ineffective against it. It does, however, respond to antibiotics, providing you are diagnosed before it is too late. Diseases caused by bacilli are generally nasty. Leprosy and TB being the two other well-known examples. -- Eric Michael Cordian 0+ O:.T:.O:. Mathematical Munitions Division "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law"