ANTHRAX IN CONNECTICUT

It is unlikely that there are anthrax spores comingling with the ladies leaves - and at 94 who rakes their own leaves anyway. No, I predict she is the first in the next wave.

I've been thinking along the same lines you have. I wonder if perhaps--just perhaps--being infected with anthrax occurs naturally more often than we think, but since until now, doctors would never think to test for it, the illnesses are diagnosed as "pneumonia" or "influenza" or whatever.

Not long ago I read a most interesting book about the Black Plague, where the author argued that the "plague" was really a combination of several different diseases, including anthrax.

Has there been any more news on the intern from AMI that supposedly was hospitalized with pneumonia? Seems odd that a young 20 something would contract pneumonia in early fall in Florida. After leaving some ominous message.

I read on another post all wool is irradiated in the USA to make sure it is anthrax free. So this isn't likely either.

I checked that out a couple of days ago when I was reading Alamo Girl's thread. If you haven't seen it yet do a search on Anthrax and do. She's done a lot of good research.

Anyway, the intern, according to the FBI has been questioned and cleared. I'm still suspicious though. That's an awful big area to have the entire building contaminated. Initially they found anthrax spores on Bob Steven's keyboard. I suppose if it was a letter, (which they cannot find), it could have contaminated other mail that got delivered to the other floors though. There was mention of an odd letter addressed to AMI. It was an odd love letter to J-Lo, and there was a powdery substance in it along with a Star of David. Different for sure from the letters that went to the media and senators.

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Sept. 18: Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J.; sent to New York Post and NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. They later test positive for anthrax.(3)

Sept. 22: Editorial page assistant at New York Post who opens letters to the editor notices blister on her finger. Johanna Huden later tests positive for skin form of anthrax, more treatable form of disease.(3)

Sept 24: FAA grounds crop-duster planes after the FBI warns of potential chemical or biological attacks from them. An employee of Belle Glade Airport, Florida has identified Mohamed Atta, whom the FBI believes piloted the American Airlines flight from Boston which slammed into the WTC. He is identified as one of a group of Middle Eastern men who visited Belle Glade in the months before the crash, asking for specific details about crop-dusters.(9)

Sept. 26: Unidentified maintenance worker at Trenton regional post office in Hamilton, N.J., visits physician to have lesion on arm treated.(3)

Sept. 27: Teresa Heller, letter carrier at West Trenton post office, develops lesion on her arm.(3)

Sept. 28: Erin O'Connor, assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw, notices a lesion.(3)

Sept 28: The baby, believed to have visited newsroom on Sept. 28, is taking antibiotics and expected to recover.(3)

Sept. 30: Bob Stevens, photo editor at supermarket tabloid The Sun in Boca Raton, Fla., starts to feel ill.(3)

Oct. 1: Ernesto Blanco, mailroom employee at American Media Inc., publisher of The Sun, admitted to hospital with heart problems. O'Connor begins taking Cipro.(3)

Oct. 2: Stevens admitted to hospital.(3)

Oct. 3: In New Jersey, Heller is hospitalized and biopsy is performed.(3)

Oct. 4: Authorities confirm Stevens has inhaled form of anthrax, most deadly form of disease. Claire Fletcher, assistant to CBS News anchor Dan Rather, begins taking penicillin after visiting doctor. Later, she's tested for anthrax after NBC case becomes public.(3)

Oct. 5: Stevens dies. First U.S. death from inhaled anthrax since 1976.(3)

Oct. 9: FBI pursues anthrax lead Agents are combing the offices of a magazine publishers where anthrax traces have been found (2)

Oct. 9: Letter postmarked Oct 9th Trenton, N.J.; sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. It later tests positive for anthrax. (3)

Oct. 10 3rd anthrax case Officials launched a criminal investigation into the source of the disease. US embassies were told to stock up on the antibiotic (2)

Oct. 10: FBI takes investigative lead in Boca Raton, Fl as anthrax spores are discovered in a hospitalized man (9)

Oct. 12: Officials announce O'Connor at NBC developed skin anthrax after opening letter.(3)

Oct 12: Leahy's office decides to set aside all unopened mail after anthraxcontaminated letter was sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. (5)

Oct. 14: Letter containing anthrax opened in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office. Daschle's office quarantined.(3)

Oct. 15: 2 new anthrax cases A baby boy of an ABC News employee and a 73-year-old employee of the Sun tabloid - have been diagnosed (2)

Oct. 15: Officials say infant son of ABC News producer in New York developed skin anthrax. The baby, believed to have visited newsroom on Sept. 28, is taking antibiotics and expected to recover.(3)

Oct. 16: Twelve Senate offices closed; hundreds of staffers get tests.(3)

Oct 16: Since 10/1 FBI has responded to 2,300 incidents or suspected incidents involving anthrax (9)

Oct. 17: Thirty-one people at U.S. Capitol test positive for exposure to anthrax, officials say. Later, more complete tests show only 28 actually exposed. House shuts down for testing. Senate stays open two more days. New York Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office evacuated after test detects presence of anthrax. No one tests positive for exposure.(3)

Oct 18: House of Rep suspends work until Monday Oct 22.

Oct. 18: Fletcher at CBS tests positive for skin anthrax. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hold special Webcast to teach doctors how to recognize anthrax. New Jersey letter carrier who first got lesion on Sept. 27 diagnosed with skin anthrax. Another postal worker likely had skin anthrax, though tests inconclusive.(3)

Oct. 19: New York Post announces Huden is diagnosed with skin anthrax. Another New Jersey postal worker, at Hamilton regional office, tests positive for skin anthrax. FBI questions residents, businesses on New Jersey mail route of infected letter carrier. Anthrax bacteria strains in Florida, New York and Washington may have been from same batch, Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge says.(3)

Oct. 19 Anthrax strains the same Strains sent to NBC in NY, the Sun tabloid in Florida and to the Senate come from the same source (2)

Oct 20: The FBI identifies a mail sorting faciltly in Trenton, New Jersey as location from which the anthraxcontaminated letters to Brokaw and Daschel were sent (9)

Oct. 20: Tests confirm anthrax traces found in mail-bundling machine at House office building a few blocks from the Capitol. (3)

Oct. 21: Washington postal worker gravely ill with inhalation anthrax; five others sick. Officials close two postal facilities, begin testing thousands of postal employees. Later that night, postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. dies. New Jersey health officials say work areas, but not public areas, at Hamilton post office test positive for anthrax spores. Washington postal worker Joseph P. Curseen goes to Maryland hospital complaining of flu-like symptoms. He is sent home (3)

Oct. 22: Curseen returns to hospital at 5:45 a.m. by ambulance; dies six hours later of inhalation anthrax. Two other postal workers hospitalized in serious but stable condition. House and Senate reopen; office buildings remain closed. (3)

Oct 22: Two Washington D.C. postal workers die of what officials suspect is anthrax (9)

Oct. 23: Anthrax found on machinery at military base that sorts mail for White House; all tests at White House itself come back negative. President Bush says: "I don't have anthrax." Officials announce that unidentified New Jersey postal worker at Hamilton office is hospitalized with suspected case of inhalation anthrax. Ernesto Blanco released from hospital after 23 days(3,9)

Oct 23: The investigative trail at the New Jersey mail facility that is believed to have processed the letters sent to Tom Brokaw, The NY Post and Senator Tom Daschle is at a dead end (9)

Oct. 24: Surgeon General David Satcher admits "we were wrong" not to respond more aggressively to tainted mail in Washington. Three new cases of suspected inhalation anthrax announced in Maryland suburbs, all linked to Daschle letter.(3)

Oct. 25: An employee at the State Department's mail facility is hospitalized with anthrax and the Postal Service sets up spot checks at facilities nationwide. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge says the anthrax the Daschle letter was highly concentrated and made "to be more easily absorbed" by its victims The number of Americans taking antibiotics for possible anthrax exposure reaches 10,000.(3,9)

Oct 25: Homeland Security Chief confirms anthrax used in letters to Brokaw, NY Post, American Media Inc and Senator Daschel is from same strain produced in Iowa and used in research all over the world. (9)

Oct. 26: The Supreme Court building is ordered shut down for anthrax testing. Postal workers demand the closure of anthrax-tainted buildings in New York and Florida, with (3)

Oct. 30: Call to shut US anthrax mailrooms Postal union leaders have filed a lawsuit, demanding that 13 sorting offices infected with anthrax be closed... (2)

Nov 2: Investigators reviewing video and computer tapes of potical scanners that 'read' handwritten envelopes at post office. (8)

Nov 2: FBI agents raid a Trenton N.J. apartment (8)

Nov 9: "AMERITHRAX" is the code name assigned to the federal investigation (8)

Nov 13: US Attorneys begin interviewing 5,000 men who have entered country since Jan 2000 (8)

Nov 17: The Dirksen and Russell buildings were closed after envelope addressed to Sen Patrick Leahy discovered (4,7)

Nov. 18: Dirksen and Russell buildings to reopen at 8 a.m. Monday. The Hart Senate Office Building, will remain closed. (6)

1. Las Vegas, Harris 1998 timeline. http://www.lasvegassun.com/dossier/crime/bio/timeline.html
2. Florida timeline 2001 http://www.mapreport.com/countries/florida.html
3. http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/native/article_detail.asp?Article_ID=7572
4. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0466.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
5. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0466.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
6. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0576.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
7. http://www.icflorida.com/shared/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V0576.AP-Attacks-Anthrax.html
8. http://www.crime.com/feature/terrorism/timeline.html
9. http://www.crime.com/feature/terrorism/timeline_01.html

10. http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel01/102301.htm gif of envelopes

I can add tha the letter to Senator Leahy was postmarked October 9, 2001 from Trenton, NJ

Now the lady from Conn. had the inhiliation Anthrax and has no connection to anyone as far as we know. Just like the poor woman in NYC.

"I am willing to bet on misdiagnosis."
Consider the following...
Anthrax does occur naturally. Lots of old people die each year. None of them in the past have been tested for anthrax until now. Now that we're starting alot of anthrax testing, we are going to see a few cases here and there.
Panic, no. Be advised, yes.

Is the wool irradiated before or after the sweaters are made in China, Honduras, and India?

Intersting piece of work! We Freepers have too much time on our hands!

and at 94 who rakes their own leaves anyway.

From the news reports, it sounded like she was living by herself?

OTOH, maybe it was intended for Senator Dodd, addressed to "The Old Bag From Connecticut", and mis-delivered by the Postal Service.

Thanks for the sequence. I'm guessing flu and someone with an active imagination or need for publicity...unless she is Senator Dodd's mother.

Yes, it can be the middle eastern crowd.

The national demonrats in the last 40 years have been associated with immorality of all kinds. The Islamic groups would go after those that are unG*dly first. I think they have a tad more respect for those who do believe in G*D than those who don't. When you look at bloody bill clinton and the demonrats of the last 20 years, what do you see? They would see bloody bill and his party as satanic. I don't think they can conceive of anyone not believing in a G*D, so they'd put them in the satanic group.

Last night, somewhere here on FR, I read where a group heading and working in Afghanistan's vaccination lab has disappeared. About 7 months ago, 1/2 the people just left. The lab techs said they were going to America and Europe. The mullah that was in charge of the lab just disappeared at the same time. They could be here or in Europe doing the anthrax attacks. How many people are going to check the baby powder of everyone who flies. We also know that customs only checks a small percentage of incoming shipments for anything, let alone anthrax.

We know sleepers are still in the US.

I don't believe that it's a homegrown conservative right wing republican type doing this.

"The old bag from Connecticut" love it!

I read on another post all wool is irradiated in the USA to make sure it is anthrax free. So this isn't likely either.

Nor are depends.(Sorry, about that.)

I think all Social Security transactions have been electronically transferred to banks the past few years.

Only if the recipient requests direct deposit.

"...other training sessions took place in Connecticut where Islamic militants trained on weekends. A FBI report, based on Connecticut State Police intelligence, summarized the activities of the training sessions using semi automatic weapons..."

From some site www.iacsp.com/itobli3.html

It doesn't say what towns they trained in would be interesting to see if one of them was Oxford.

Thanks for the heads up!