"Dr. Evil" wrote:
Center for Disease Control Investigating Second Anthrax Case By Chris Dolmetsch
FORTUNATELY, this stuff is not contagious. Either you have it or you don't.
I'm not sure I believe that, or much of anything else put out regarding a bioagent. ("We have everything under control. Just continue to pay your taxes and do what we tell you and everything will be all right.") Are there any real doctors or vets on the list who can confirm it from their own knowledge? (Sorry, I don't think I want to trust the word of a "Dr Evil". <grin>) I figure the spores have to come from somewhere, and they seem to be grown in animals and then released to spread. According to the CDC page on the subject, "Anthrax most commonly occurs in wild and domestic lower vertebrates..., but it can also occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals or tissue from infected animals". Humans are animals, aren't they? Do the spores reproduce only in herbivores? Well, maybe I'm just cynical from experience with the government's lying and concealing for our own good. SRF -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel 617-670-3793 "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato