You're on the list. Below is another UPI story just out. Anthrax covers a broad range - including FBI ineptitude and gubbmint agency CYA.
Clearly the CDC do want to admit this man was made ill with anthrax since they sent him into the building with only a papermask for protection.
http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=86476&cat=Science
Inspector may be fifth anthrax victim:-
ANNAPOLIS, Md. | June 07, 2005 7:11:27 PM IST
An inspector looking into Washington's anthrax attacks contracted anthrax-like poisoning symptoms, but officials refuse to list him among those attacked.
Two people were killed and two others were sickened in the fall of 2001 because of anthrax traced to letters to two U.S. senators. Postal Inspector Bill Paliscak removed the filter above the machine that sorted the letters near where the two dead men had worked, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
The dust that drifted down contained anthrax spores. Four days later Paliscak became ill with anthrax-like symptoms. He's been in and out of the hospital since, the Times said, and his medical bills total more than $800,000. But he's not considered a victim of the anthrax attack because blood tests never showed anthrax-related bacteria and antibodies.
Medical officials, including the Centers for Disease Control, say a proper diagnosis cannot be made without laboratory confirmation.
While the Department of Labor determined Paliscak's illness was work-related, and he receives workmen's compensation, Paliscak and his personal doctors are frustrated by the lack of a formal anthrax diagnosis. One doctor accused the CDC of having it's head in the sand about the case, the Times said.
(UPI)
This kind of ineptitude or "it's not in his bloodstream" given the tests that might not be conclusive, is the kind of thing that makes me nuts.
I almost died from a bloodstream infection that can't be tested for, either. But it's symptomology is specific, and the only way to make the diagnosis. I had to read up on it, go through 4 doctors to finally find one who "believed" in this disease, in order to be treated for it.
I feel for Bill Paliscak.