bad bad news... my mom wants to me to transfer out of United States, I was like "what? no thanks mom! not gonna do that!"

I gave up vediogame entirely too! a good thing! bonus for the life!
ever since I participated in Ironworks, I am doing fantastic in my writing class!! yay! long live the IW!

3rd Case Reported. www.cnn.com www.drudgereport.com

I hope they get this crap cleaned up, and figure out who sent it.. http://www.ironworksforum.com/ubb/no...iles/frown.gif

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Turns out then, that this strain of Anthrax is one that was created in a US laboratory.

Don't forget that Bin Laden isn't the only person with a gripe against the US government. Remember Tim McVeigh anyone? Although I remember the Oklahoma City bomb was initially blamed on Bin Laden too...
Make of that what you will.

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Sorry - also to add that in the UK (with obviously a much smaller population than the US) there have been 18 cases of cutaneous Anthrax in humans, caught through contact with livestock, in the last 20 years.
Don't forget, this is also a naturally occurring disease in cattle with a long incubation period and infective spores that can remain dormant for a long time.

Britain had been free of foot & mouth disease for longer than we had been free of Anthrax when foot & mouth started up again early this year. (Previous case of Foot & Mouth in livestock, 1967, compared with Anthrax, 1974).

BTW, in case anyone is suspicious about how I know all this, I work for the English agriculture department (DEFRA) dealing with animal health, mostly cattle. So it's my job to know.

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[This message has been edited by Epona (edited 10-11-2001).]

Two or three cases of a natural disease like anthrax are probably not a terrorist attack. I would suspect chemical contamination of a water supply to be a more likely target for chem/bio warfare. Not many are willing to use chem/bio because I believe it is a policy that the US reserves the right to respond to such agression with nuclear capability. Nuk/Bio/Chem is a dangerous playground. If the enemy should find a production site and hit it, the stuff is now set loose in your own country.

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I still see no reason for the population at large to be afraid.
As I have said before it just isn't that contagious. But if you are afraid
be more cautious of strange packages in the mail. It seems odd to me that both places hit are related to the news. Though one can hardly call The Sun a bastion of credible news. In either case this sounds more like the work of a home-grown nutball to me.

For an article on this threat...
http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...178989,00.html

Here is a link to the CDC FAQ page for Anthrax...
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/disea.../anthrax_g.htm

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In fact, it is not contagious at all.

Mark