Posted on 12/27/2009 6:15:43 PM PST by Past Your Eyes
A Strafford County woman with gastrointestinal anthrax is in critical condition in an out-of-state hospital. State health officials say the infection may have been caused by naturally occurring spores carried in African instruments used at a monthly drum circle at United Campus Ministry at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
The woman is the state's first confirmed case of anthrax infection in more than 50 years. The last cases occurred in 1957, when nine employees of Arms Textile Mill in Manchester were infected.
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This happened in PA 3-4 years ago: http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/02/22/anthrax.hospital/index.html
When did anyone tell you to panic? Sheesh. They say it doesn’t pass from person to person.
My point exactly.
ping
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