Floridian Contracts Deadly Anthrax (Thread III)

Miami Herald ^ | October 4, 2001 9:18pm EDT Updated | Lesley Clark, et al

[NautiNurse]

Thread II

Thread I

[Clinton's a rapist]

His home is within a mile of the Palm Beach County Park Airport in Lantana. That's the same airfield where Mohamed Atta, one of the suspected hijackers who slammed jetliners into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, rented a plane on four separate occasions in August, according to Marian Smith, owner of Palm Beach Flight Training.

Just a coincidence, I'm sure. Fasten your safety belts, folks, this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

[NautiNurse]

Gotta give the Miami Herald credit for keeping on top of this story, and ferreting out the details this evening.

[Clinton's a rapist]

If I lived in that neighbourhood, I'd be checking myself into hospital right now.

[NautiNurse]

I'm really curious to know how the epidemiologists adamantly ruled out his contracting the illness anywhere BUT in Florida. That's creepy.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I must admit to being skeptical by nature, but this is making me a little queasy and I'm over 3,000 miles away. If I lived in Florida I think I'd be pretty upset...and maybe getting a tad unstable. I sure hope this isn't what we think it might be -- for all of you there (and everyone else in who knows where they could have spread this stuff).

[hole_n_one]

Fasten your safety belts, folks, this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

Let's not sugar coat it.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

The bad news is that your risk is just as high where you are as it would be in Florida. The good news is that -- at least at the moment -- that risk still appears to be pretty low.

[NautiNurse]

Honestly, Dr. Nauti (veterinarian) chastises me often for getting 'over-excited' about things. However, he brought home a pile of antibiotics tonight after I told him about the case. His own idea to bring them--I didn't ask.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

The bad news is that your risk is just as high where you are as it would be in Florida.

Yeah, in all honesty, that's probably where that queasy feeling is coming from.

[rebdov]

I really want to believe that this is hysterical hype. I really want to believe it...

[Libertina]

This is the 3rd thread so I'm pretty sure another FReeper has said it before, but I have to restate:

Sure seems to be a lot of coincidences today! Blown up airplane filled with Israelis, Anthrax (pulminary) victim, bus driver with slashed throat. Missing Tanker Truck, Missing Crop Duster... Have I missed anything? It must be time for bed, hopefully when I wake up tomorrow it will be a NEW day. Hmmm

[Don Joe]

"I really want to believe that this is hysterical hype. I really want to believe it..."

Well, you could start by hyping yourself up into believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Once you can manage that, you can move up to the stuff that's more of a stretch, like "three times is not enemy action." :)

[spunkets]

"I'm really curious to know how the epidemiologists adamantly ruled out his contracting the illness anywhere BUT in Florida."

It's because of the stage he was at when he entered the hospital. His trip was over the weekend. He must have not felt so good then. If he picked it up over the weekend he would have had to snot a big line of bacilli to be so far as he was on tuesday.

This bact. has it's effect by producing toxin. Once that toxin reches a certain concentration the patient is beyond hope. That was tueday at the latest. Also the shortest incubation observed is 2 days, that's with a high initial bact. exposure. No one else is sick so, unless he plays with the stuff himself, the initial bact count in his lungs had to be small...longer incubation time.

[spunkets]

"Missing Crop Duster"

plane's in the sea, unless you think a 20yr vet of the state dept took it. The plane also had it's dusting apparatus taken off before the flight.

[NautiNurse]

Posted on an earlier thread--hope the study has some veracity Treatment Thwarts Deadly Anthrax Toxin In Rats

Interesting, it was just published Wednesday, October 3, 2001. Another coincidence?

[brat]

I agree...too many coincidences!

[Libertina]

Good link, thanks. No, I think NOT another coincidence, but rather some working overtime by agencies. And perhaps some prompting by government types to "calm the masses."

[Giddyupgo]

A lot of people on these threads have mentioned taking Doxycycline. Do you need a prescription? And if not, where would you get it?

[Dan Day]

I agree...too many coincidences!

Don't forget, lost planes, chemical plant explosions, someone contracting a rare disease as an isolated case, etc., happen ALL THE TIME.

The only reason they look like "coincidences" now is because we're actively hunting for them and trying to tie them to "signs" of terrorism, *and* the news agencies are reporting them nationwide far more than they used to, for the same reasons.

Personally, I don't see any "coincidences" at all that are any stranger than what was frequently occurring *before* 9/11 as well.