Posted on 10/12/2001 7:23:51 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
Just heard on Fox that Microsoft has recieved Anthrax letter. My water line to my fridge ice maker just blew out! This is getting personal!
My water line to my fridge ice maker just blew out!
Considering the recent paranoia about sabatoged water supplies, that may be a blessing in disguise...
Officials: Letter May Have Anthrax
By Brendan Riley
Associated Press Writer
Friday, Oct. 12, 2001; 9:00 p.m. EDT
CARSON CITY, Nev. –– A letter containing pornographic material that was sent from Malaysia to a Microsoft office in Reno has tentatively tested positive for anthrax, state officials said Friday.
No one has tested positive for the disease or become ill, officials said.
Additional tests were being conducted at a state Health Division laboratory to confirm whether anthrax is present in the material, and health teams were contacting Microsoft employees to determine who might have handled the letter.
Gov. Kenny Guinn confirmed the letter had been sent to the Microsoft Licensing Inc. office and that it had come from Malaysia. He said Microsoft officials contacted health officials Wednesday.
Microsoft Corp. spokesman Matt Pilla in Redmond, Wash., said he had not heard about the letter.
Dr. Randy Todd, the state epidemiologist, said the Washoe County Health Department and the FBI were involved in the investigation, which began after one company employee got a returned letter that "just didn't look right."
Todd said the letter had been opened and appeared to have been moistened and then dried out. The governor said Microsoft had sent a check in the letter to a vendor in Malaysia, and the check was still in the letter, along with the pornographic material. The vendor wasn't identified.
Todd said that in the testing "we got a number of things growing, including bacillus, the genus to which anthrax belongs."
A further test to see whether the bacillus was anthrax produced results "consistent with it being anthrax," Todd said. "But we'd like to have one more test at a minimum and maybe two more."
"There's more at this point that we don't know than we do know," he added.
"This is a cause for some concern. It is not a reason for anyone to be panicking at this time," he added. "We have nobody who is ill."
I know this is 90 minutes old, but it seems to indicate the results were positive, but no one was infected, yet.
-Snerdley
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