Either way, (pos or neg) they are saying it is very unlikely it will carry ANY kind of risk.
Right on!!
Doesn't matter.
(Carson City-AP) - - A second anthrax test is negative on a material found in a letter sent to an office in Reno.
State officials say that's despite a first test that was positive for the potentially deadly germ on pornographic material received at a Microsoft office.
Washoe County District Health Officer Barbara Hunt says a third test will be done.But the substance is probably no anthrax, she says.
The results of the third of three test won't be available until tomorrow.Meanwhile, health teams are contacting Microsoft employees to determine who might have handles the letter from Malaysia.Doctor Randy Todd, the state epidemiologist, says the Washoe County Health Department and the FBI are involved in the investigation.
It began after one company employee got a returned letter that had been opened and appeared to have been moistened and then dried out.
THE LOCAL ANTHRAX SCARE-
CARSON CITY-State health officials are analyzing a letter sent to Microsoft Licensing from Malaysia that appeared suspicious to employees.
By 3:00 pm, contents of the letter tested "presumptively positive" for anthrax.
By 6:40 p.m., the letter's second test was negative for anthrax.
Additional testing to confirm the presence of anthrax is ongoing and is expected to be complete by Saturday.
The contents of the letter had a number of things growing on it, like bacillus, the genus to which anthrax belongs.
Nothing to see here, no connection with terrorists...
Go fly on an airliner...
Spend some money...
That is all,
Your loving government
I thought it was short for Janet Reno.
Wow! So, like what does this mean? This deadly germ got into Janet, but the toxic environment it found itself in was too deadly for even such a nasty germ as anthrax to survive?
Could immunologists figure out a way to study her and figure out how to create a vaccine? Maybe if we strive to become more like her in some way, it will make us immune to anthrax?