Second man tests positive for anthrax; media building closed
On Monday, October 8, 2001, at 07:26 AM, Xeni Jardin wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/08/florida.anthrax.case/index.html
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The Associated Press reported that it was unclear when final tests would tell whether or not the second man has full-blown anthrax. The bacterium normally has an incubation period of up to seven days, but could take up to 60 days to develop, the AP reported, citing local health officials.
State and local health officials closed a building where a 63-year-old Florida man who died of anthrax worked, after a sample from the building and from another employee showed the presence of the bacterium that causes anthrax.
This confirms the news I posted a few days ago. The first known case of inhalational anthrax in 25 years happens at this time. Then the second... Moreover, in the same small town of Lantana where three of the WTC pilots lived and worked. Mighty weird coincidence, if it is. One coincidence is probably that, but more? (A complete speculation, admittedly, is the connection with the first dead guy's occupation: a photographer for the weekly tabloid "The Sun." Speculations that he was photographing the WTC pilots and their small plane for a "scoop" on bioterrorism are unsubstantiated.) --Tim May --Tim May, Corralitos, California Quote of the Month: "It is said that there are no atheists in foxholes; perhaps there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks." --Cathy Young, "Reason Magazine," both enemies of liberty.
Xeni Jardin wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/10/08/florida.anthrax.case/index.html
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The Associated Press reported that it was unclear when final tests would tell whether or not the second man has full-blown anthrax. The bacterium normally has an incubation period of up to seven days, but could take up to 60 days to develop, the AP reported, citing local health officials.
State and local health officials closed a building where a 63-year-old Florida man who died of anthrax worked, after a sample from the building and from another employee showed the presence of the bacterium that causes anthrax.
Authorities closed the American Media Inc. building and the company voluntarily evacuated employees who were there working Sunday evening, said a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Emergency Management Office. >>
Publishers of Nat. Equirer, the Globe, and the Sun, whose building it was. How effective would supermarket tabloid distribution be for mass delivery of infectious quantities? Whoa. Somebody better work that out. jbdigriz
"James B. DiGriz" wrote:
How effective would supermarket tabloid distribution be for mass delivery of infectious quantities?
Whoa. Somebody better work that out.
If someone worked out a way to kill off the stupidest third of our population, should we consider that a hostile act? Eugenically yours, 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
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