Last is still this WHOPPER coincidence with being 10 miles from the mad jihaders hangout. It's TWO coincidences, first, the actual area-with the entire US as being the potential "occassional and natural anthrax area", he's practically on top of where they were, and second is the timing, right after the wtc attacks relatively speaking. One or the other-coincidence, two simultaneously starts to look like *not* a coincidence, IMO.
Last is still this WHOPPER coincidence with being 10 miles from the mad jihaders hangout. It's TWO coincidences, first, the actual area-with the entire US as being the potential "occassional and natural anthrax area", he's practically on top of where they were, and second is the timing, right after the wtc attacks relatively speaking. One or the other-coincidence, two simultaneously starts to look like *not* a coincidence, IMO.
Very well said.
-The need to check within the scope of all possible strains of Antrax. Do do otherwise would be to risk missing the source.
The only other similat time line was with a russian biowarfare strain, not with any "natural" anthrax.
-Only those "Natural" strains that we know of. Diseases change, new strains arise.
Next, they keep swearing it's not communicable human to human, but his relatives are being given a prophylactic treatment of antibiotics.
-The precautionary principle. If they didn't attempt to protect the family and this does indeed turn out to be a new strain that is somehow communicable then the CDC would look mighty damn stupid and I'm sure there'd be a looooong line of Freepers condeming them for "ignoring the possibility".
Last is still this WHOPPER coincidence with being 10 miles from the mad jihaders hangout.
-This has merit, but is should not be overlooked that coincidences do happen. Sometimes they happen in a manner that we consider highly improbable.
Heres what I found on an Atlanta CBS web site....
WGCL-TV, Atlanta -- Home
http://www.wgnx.com/Global/story.asp?S=497878&nav=2JWw51Di
Lantana, Fla.
Florida Man Dies After Contrascting Rare Form Of Anthrax
A 63-year-old Florida man died of the inhaled form of anthrax Friday in the first such death in the United States in 25 years. The case raised fears of a biological attack, but health officials said there is no evidence he was the victim of terrorism.
Bob Stevens, a photo editor at the supermarket tabloid The Sun, died at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis after antibiotics failed to help. He suffered kidney failure and cardiac arrest.
"It was not unexpected," said Dr. Larry Bush, an infectious-disease specialist. Federal and state health investigators emphasized that the disease is not contagious and no other cases have been reported. But they are trying to reconstruct Stevens' movements and track down the source of the disease. The FBI is involved, as is the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Anthrax has been developed by some countries as a possible biological weapon, and the terrorist attacks Sept. 11 have put many people on edge about the threat. Anthrax can also be contracted naturally, often from farm animals or soil. Stevens was described as an avid outdoorsman.
FBI, CDC and state investigators sealed off Stevens' house in Lantana and searched it for about two hours Friday. When they left, they removed the yellow crime-scene tape. They also searched his workplace.
Dr. Steven Wiersma, a state epidemiologist, said investigators took a number of items from Stevens' home, including pesticide sprays and fertilizer bottles, to see if they were contaminated.
Some in Lantana have been concerned because Mohamed Atta, believed to be one of the hijackers who destroyed the World Trade Center, had rented planes at a flight school at Palm Beach County Park Airport, according to the school's owner. Stevens' home is within a mile of the airport. Also, Atta and other Middle Eastern men are believed to have visited an airfield in Belle Glade, about 40 miles from Lantana, and asked a lot of questions about crop-dusters. In addition, some of the suspected hijackers lived at an apartment complex in Boynton Beach, about 10 miles from Lantana.
"I'm starting to get a little scared," said Louis Selitti Jr., 33, who lives across the street from Stevens. "To get something in our lungs, you have to breathe it in. Hopefully it wasn't around here."
The anthrax bacterium causes pneumonia. There is a vaccine to prevent the spread of the disease, but it is available only to the military.
The most recent previous U.S. case of anthrax was earlier this year in Texas. But that was the more common skin form, not the inhaled type of anthrax, an especially lethal and rare form in which the disease settles in the lungs.
Only 18 inhalation cases in the United States were documented in the 20th century, the most recent in 1976 in California. That case, too, was deadly. The last anthrax death in Florida occurred in 1974.
"There's no need for people to fear they are at risk," CDC Director Dr. Jeffrey P. Koplan said Thursday. But he said a release of the germ by terrorists is on the list of possibilities under investigation.
Eric Croddy, a bioterrorism expert at California's Monterey Institute, said that everything so far leads him to believe that the government is right, that Stevens caught the disease naturally and that it is an isolated case.
"He's an unfortunate, unlucky fellow," Croddy said
That's all I've found to make this story a bit more readable.......Stay Safe