Palm Beach County FL Man has Anthrax

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[NautiNurse]

Breaking news on FNC--a 63 year old man from Palm Beach County is in critical condition with anthrax

[texgal]

I wonder when the last case of anthrax in the US was diagnosed?

Just heard on Channel 2 that the last case diagnosed in the US was 1976.

[Demidog]

Anthrax can be passed from animal to human apparently. This doesn't mean that it was spread intentionally. And in fact it cannot be transmitted from human to human from what I understand.

[shockjock]

It's a just a little too coincidental to me that this guy is from Palm Beach and most of the terrorists were living in and around that area. What's the incubation period on this?

[Cindy]

I wonder if the "intelligence" agencies like the CIA, FBI, Homeland Security know about this "Soviet Test Island" as reported in The Telegraph.

[honway]

bump

[BearPaw1]

Durham is a very nice city. And if the guy was taking his son to the university I really
don't think he would be hunting. And even if he was hunting that means we have a problem
with anthrax in eastern NC. Which is VERY distrubing to me since I live in NC. About 4
hours west of Durham. That also means they will put a halt on hauling amimals.

[testforecho]

bump! excellent post.

[pgkdan]

Isolated cases happen every year, and we were due for one.

Bull...the CDC says there have been 18 reported cases in the 20th century. Not exactly something that happens every day.

[Eustace]

I bought a book a couple of years ago, called "Bacterialogical Warfare" by Larry Wayne Harris. I bought the book because of a full page ad in the Washington Times which told about Larry being arrested by the FBI because they believed he had anthrax virus. They had to let him go because what he had was anthrax vaccine.

Larry is a registered microbiologist and helped train the Iraqi's in chemical warfare.

In his book he says he befriended an Iraqi woman during this training. When the first attack (aided by the FBI)on the World Trade Center happened in 1993, Larry says this woman broke down (believing the attack had started) and told him everything. She told Larry that there are already onehundred "pods" in America ready to rehydrate anthrax virus and disperse it when given the order. A pod consists of one woman who will rehydrate the virus and ten men who will disperse it. Larry shows how they plan to shut down America's electric grid to hamper communications. He also says that people have already been caught at America's north and south borders with fleas infected with bubonic plague.The anthrax virus has been brought into our country in body cavities.

Maybe You remember after the attack on the Trade Center, they said some of the "terrorists" had been looking into crop dusting planes.

Larry goes on to say that anthrax virus remains deadly for over onehundred years. In his book he also describes how to make a "colloidal silver" generator. He says that if you have been taking colloidal silver for 50 days before an attack you will be protected. A person I called about gas masks said that, masks wouldn't protect you from anthrax virus. There are numerous websites selling colloidal silver for close to $40 per quart, you can make your own for pennies a quart. This isn't to scare anybody, just sharing information. It's obvious with the trouble our military had with substandard anthrax vaccines, that our government doesn't have our wellbeing in mind.

[Rome2000]

"Inhalational anthrax generally occurs after an incubation period of 1 to 6 days"

ibid:Brachman PS, Friedlander AM. Anthrax. In: Plotkin & Mortimer, editors. Vaccines. Philadelphia (PA): W.B. Saunders; 1994. p. 730.

[spunkets]

"A few modifications"

Already outlined. It's better not to elaborate too much. It would be good to keep the antibiotics at hand to prevent any deaths, in case the wackjobs try anything at all. This should really scare no one, since the diseease is so suseptable to treatment at the first symptoms.

[TexanaRED]

If I remember correctly, here in Texas there was an outbreak in a cattle herd a few years ago. Can't remember exactly where, I want to say up around the Dallas area, but I am not at all sure. I also vaguely remember an outbreak in South Texas within the last 10 or so years. There were no humans infected in either case.

[Husker24]

Exactly what i was thinking, If this man has inhalation Anthrax he didnt get it from deer or cattle.

[gold]

Date: Fri 17 Aug 2001 11:43:59
From: M. Cosgriff
Source: Reuters Health [edited]

CDC Reports First Human Anthrax Case Since 1992
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ATLANTA - A North Dakota man who handled anthrax-infected livestock during an outbreak last year has become the first human case of the illness in the US in nearly a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta reported Thursday.

The last reported case of cutaneous anthrax in the US occurred in 1992. The 67-year-old North Dakota man is the only person known to have been infected during a livestock outbreak in the state last year. During the outbreak, 32 farms in North Dakota were quarantined, compared with an average of only 2 farms per year during the preceding 40 years.

The infected man had helped dispose of 5 cows that had died of anthrax 4 days before his symptoms appeared. He wore leather gloves, but the CDC researchers speculate that the man may have transferred infective anthrax spores that were on his gloves to broken skin on his face. "(The man) noticed a small bump on his left check at the angle of his jaw," CDC researchers write in the 17 Aug 2001 issue of the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The lesion had enlarged to about the size of a quarter 2 days later and was surrounded by a purple ring, the report indicates. After antibiotics, the man's condition slowly improved. [14 days on 500 mg ciprofloxacin twice daily. - Mod.MHJ]

"In general, people should minimize the handling of animals that have died of anthrax. If possible, the animal should be burned where it lies," the CDC's Dr. David Ashford told Reuters Health. "Anyone that does handle an animal that has died of anthrax should be on the lookout for any unusual sores on the skin surfaces that were exposed to the carcass," he added. However, Ashford stressed that for most people the odds of contracting anthrax are quite low. "There is no great risk for the public or community in general," he said. "The risk for those handling these animals is for cutaneous anthrax exclusively, (and it) is a treatable disease with low mortality."

SOURCE: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2001;50:677-680.
Human Anthrax Associated With an Epizootic Among Livestock --- North Dakota, 2000. Emma Hitt, PhD

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5032a1.htm

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[Rome2000]

Based on the fact that largest outbreak in history of Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever has just been reported today in (coincidence?) Afghanistan,
and we have on the same day a report of inhalational Anthrax in Florida (the first since the 1970's)there is a strong possibility that we have already
responded to a biological attack.

I hope to God that this is not the case, but this is a strong possibility.

[TexanaRED]

Now that you mention it, I remember hearing about it, but can't remember any of the details.

[Rome2000]

cutaneous anthrax in the US occurred in 1992.

This is inhalational Anthrax

"As a weapon, however, anthrax would likely be delivered by aerosol and, consequently, be acquired by inhalation."