Posted on 10/06/2001 11:52:59 AM PDT by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
AGENT ORANGE, ANTHRAX, AND GWS UPDATES - goto the bottom of page
CDC = Quarterly Report - Foodborne and Other Diseases - it is a pdf goto page 19
I have posted my response to this article on an article that I had posted before.
Thanks for this story!
.Time will tell us all!
Heres what I found on an Atlanta CBS web site....
WGCL-TV, Atlanta -- Home
http://www.wgnx.com/Global/story.asp?S=497878&nav=2JWw51Di
Lantana, Fla.
Florida Man Dies After Contrascting Rare Form Of Anthrax
A 63-year-old Florida man died of the inhaled form of anthrax Friday in the first such death in the United States in 25 years. The case raised fears of a biological attack, but health officials said there is no evidence he was the victim of terrorism.
Bob Stevens, a photo editor at the supermarket tabloid The Sun, died at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis after antibiotics failed to help. He suffered kidney failure and cardiac arrest.
"It was not unexpected," said Dr. Larry Bush, an infectious-disease specialist. Federal and state health investigators emphasized that the disease is not contagious and no other cases have been reported. But they are trying to reconstruct Stevens' movements and track down the source of the disease. The FBI is involved, as is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Anthrax has been developed by some countries as a possible biological weapon, and the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 have put many people on edge about the threat. Anthrax can also be contracted naturally, often from farm animals or soil. Stevens was described as an avid outdoorsman.
FBI, CDC and state investigators sealed off Stevens' house in Lantana and searched it for about two hours Friday. When they left, they removed the yellow crime-scene tape. They also searched his workplace.
Dr. Steven Wiersma, a state epidemiologist, said investigators took a number of items from Stevens' home, including pesticide sprays and fertilizer bottles, to see if they were contaminated.
Some in Lantana have been concerned because Mohamed Atta, believed to be one of the hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center, had rented planes at a flight school at Palm Beach County Park Airport, according to the school's owner. Stevens' home is within a mile of the airport. Also, Atta and other Middle Eastern men are believed to have visited an airfield in Belle Glade, about 40 miles from Lantana, and asked a lot of questions about crop-dusters. In addition, some of the suspected hijackers lived at an apartment complex in Boynton Beach, about 10 miles from Lantana.
"I'm starting to get a little scared," said Louis Selitti Jr., 33, who lives across the street from Stevens. "To get something in our lungs, you have to breathe it in. Hopefully it wasn't around here."
The anthrax bacterium causes pneumonia. There is a vaccine to prevent the spread of the disease, but it is available only to the military.
The most recent previous U.S. case of anthrax was earlier this year in Texas. But that was the more common skin form, not the inhaled type of anthrax, an especially lethal and rare form in which the disease settles in the lungs.
Only 18 inhalation cases in the United States were documented in the 20th century, the most recent in 1976 in California. That case, too, was deadly. The last anthrax death in Florida occurred in 1974.
"There's no need for people to fear they are at risk," CDC Director Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan said Thursday. But he said a release of the germ by terrorists is on the list of possibilities under investigation.
Eric Croddy, a bioterrorism expert at California's Monterey Institute, said that everything so far leads him to believe that the government is right, that Stevens caught the disease naturally and that it is an isolated case.
"He's an unfortunate, unlucky fellow," Croddy said
That's all I've found to make this story a bit more readable.......Stay Safe
Heard about the cyanide angle (in the first attack on the WTC) only yesterday. Was that info classified for years, or was it general knowledge that I just missed out on? And can you give more details on how it was "dispersed harmlessly"?
That's the most reasonable hypothesis that I've heard in this mess.
All the reports I saw indicated no protective clothing was worn other than surgical gloves ...they seem to think whatever threat that existed has gone now ...just looking for residulal now I would assume. My brother saw some of this footage on TV and said there were several plainclothes individuals who appeared to be a security detail ...anyone see anything like that? ...if so, why???
Good input, thanks. I hadn't considered that.
Peter Jennings is torn...fifth column propaganda has convinced him and his brainwashed friends not to blame Islam. Profiling is BAAAD!
Thank God Algore is not pres. The most difficult thing to do is the right thing to do, and casualties will be high, there and here. But it's the right thing to do.
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