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I figure they have about 9 pounds by now, that is if they had no disasters in the grow out.

Nine pounds times 454 grams per pound and one trillion spores per gram. well you can figure it out.

The good thing about anthrax is that not everyone exposed will get it. It is definitely not automatic. You have to have a break in the skin to get cutaneous, men's shaved faces, cuts etc. But aerosolized anthrax is very happy to make it's way to the lungs. Low dosages can cause infection. Where the cutaneous type takes a much higher number of spores.

Do NOT consume the mucus from your nose. Wonder why Mom was always on you not to put the boogers in your mouth.....anthrax caught in the mucoidal secretions is like a bug in a net....out of commission. Unless you swallow it. Then you get gastro-intestinal. No one has seen a case of that yet.

After the sample was stolen in 1990, who knows where it went? Could be black market, could be a relationship connection between the new husband of Rihab Taha, the Iraqi oil minister named Rashid, and the Pak that received it, also a Rashid. Probably not. They had eleven years to find each other.