What are the odds that the Feeding Frenzy Press would have missed anything that even vaguely resembled an anthrax death?
Most people can fight off anthrax infections if not given a huge exposure. It occurs naturally in soil, especially around cattle.
Do you know that the our mail is STILL going to a separate annex for screening?
Oh please. The very beginning of the anthrax attack was marked by recently departed douchebag Tommy Thompson's lame lines about how the victim was a hunter and drank from a stream etc. Of course the government was attempting to hush it all up.
If there was some wider release of anthrax, the odds that there were two widely separated victims with absolutely nothing in common is about as likely as firing a machinegun into a crowd and only hitting one person is the crowd and one person 20 miles downrange. It defies explanation. So, the answer must be: There were other victims that were undiagnosed or unreported.
Good point ! If the "plume hypothesis" is correct, there could have been many people with "sudden chest colds", or "flu". There could even have been people with a tiny cutaneous lesion that went away after a while.