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Anthrax Case Puzzles Investigators - No Other Cases Found, Source Remains a Mystery
AP BREAKING ^
| Oct 6, 2001
| Amanda Riddle
Posted on 10/06/2001 11:52:59 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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God rest his soul.
If he"responded to penicillin" why is he dead.
Past reports have shown he sought medical attention as soon as he did not feel well.If penicillin was an answer why is he dead?
What am I missing...the article 'vaguely leads' that he did not get treatment in time all past reports vaguely led on that he did.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Officials have said there is no evidence that Stevens was the victim of terrorism. Wiersma said tests of Stevens' blood further confirmed that belief because the anthrax in the sample responded to penicillin. Anthrax developed by some countries as a biological weapon could be resistant to the antibiotic, he said.Nothing to see here, just move on.
It was all just a coincidence.
No need to intern anybody, the muslims are your friend.
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posted on
10/06/2001 12:00:33 PM PDT
by
Rome2000
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Past reports have shown he sought medical attention as soon as he did not feel well.If penicillin was an answer why is he dead? You don't die from the bacteria itself. You die from a certain toxin it produces.
By the time you get symptoms, the amount of toxin in your body has teached lethal levels. At that point, you can kill every bacteria in your body and you will still die.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Whatever happened to that second positive from yesterday? I heard there was a second case found, then like ten minutes later the federal authorities jumped in and said "no, it was not." Haven't heard a single explanation about it. Just what was it then!
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To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
They misdiagnosed it. I didn't think penicillin did squat for this and there is a special Anthrax antibiotic. My guess is that this disease is more common than people think but since it is still rare and often misdiagnosed, we don't hear about it. They go "lucky" in diagnosing this one since a lab tech had just finished CDC training on bio-terror weapons and recognized the Anthrax stuff.
Once the bacteria get to the lymph nodes, it's difficult (impossible?) to stop death. Also, keep in mind that this person was 63. My guess is that it looked like his lungs were clearing while the bug made it's way to the lymphatic system so thry tagged him as "responding."
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posted on
10/06/2001 12:05:51 PM PDT
by
tbeatty
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Amazing that this article can raise the possible terrorist connection without mentioning that Steven's home is less than a mile away from an airfield were hijacker Atta rented a light plane on multiple occasions.
To: Golden Eagle
The only thing I heard was rumors it was meningitis.
To: Clinton's a rapist
You've made a point worthy of meditation.
To: tbeatty
That is my point they had him on penicillin, note that they did not state what other antibiotics/treatments were used. Or did they ever? Something smells fishy.
They used a ridiculous statement to 'try' to prove it was not a terrorist attack.
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To: HKUSP9mm
You are right on target. The air ducts of his car must be checked.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
--check out the dichotomies with offical anthrax FAQ's. first the authorities are going back 2 months-60 days- to track his movements. Much longer than most other offical estimates of exposure / incubation / symptoms time lines. The only other similat time line was with a russian biowarfare strain, not with any "natural" anthrax. Next, they keep swearing it's not communicable human to human, but his relatives are being given a prophylactic treatment of antibiotics.
Last is still this WHOPPER coincidence with being 10 miles from the mad jihaders hangout. It's TWO coincidences, first, the actual area-with the entire US as being the potential "occassional and natural anthrax area", he's practically on top of where they were, and second is the timing, right after the wtc attacks relatively speaking. One or the other-coincidence, two simultaneously starts to look like *not* a coincidence, IMO.
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posted on
10/06/2001 12:16:13 PM PDT
by
zog
To: BabylonXXX
They tested his anthraxed positive blood and penicillin worked=some? alot? The strong(er) anthrax-killing antibiotics used should have helped him then.
So it was inhaled. From where a five second air pocket,dirt,a merry go round ride?
Do you think they would risk public panic telling us if they DID know something more of a terror attack,is the question to answer and ponder. No tin foil hat needed to think about this.
To: Miss Marple;Dog Gone;Howlin
Read posts # 8 and 14..
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posted on
10/06/2001 12:21:20 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
Did anyone else read
THIS part??
Sun Sentinel
Three worrisome cases emerged, but two were ruled out and one was labeled unlikely by
days end...(blahahblah)... Still, one of the three patients being scrutinized worked
in the same building as Stevens
To: zog
they keep swearing it's not communicable human to human, but his relatives are being given a prophylactic treatment of antibiotics.Last is still this WHOPPER coincidence with being 10 miles from the mad jihaders hangout. It's TWO coincidences, first, the actual area-with the entire US as being the potential "occassional and natural anthrax area", he's practically on top of where they were, and second is the timing, right after the wtc attacks relatively speaking. One or the other-coincidence, two simultaneously starts to look like *not* a coincidence, IMO.
Very well said.
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!; ALL
??What is Steven's employment/occupation/skills/foreign travel/personal interests HISTORY??
( and the same (???) of those he recently visited)
Also, mailing/packaging/wharehouse-locker-storage location HISTORY??.......flower/plants/fertilizer bags/boxes?
Further, Rental history: cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, buses??.........to include those of his visiting contacts.
Last, food, restaurants, ball games, take-out,etc.
Most last, had he tried on 'any' gas-masks, or blown any balloons up?? (filters?)
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posted on
10/06/2001 12:23:01 PM PDT
by
maestro
To: TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
The strong(er) anthrax-killing antibiotics used should have helped him then. No medicine could have helped him.
He waited too long to begin treatment.
Generally, only those who begin antibiotics BEFORE exhibiting symptoms will live. Of course, that raises the question of how the heck is a person to know they need treatment if there are no symptoms. The answer is, the don't.
That's why Anthrax sucks bigtime.
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