Rocket science
As of now, there has only been ONE confirmed case of anthrax.
You need to stop trying to scare people.
[nb : There is a difference--the difference is very, very important in terms of our Constitutional Rights and Due Process].
...Don't let them get away with THIS one. The National ENQUIRER comes out tomorrow morning with its print editions being printed in 7 different locations in the USA ...all outside of Florida.
BUY the National ENQUIRER tomorrow and get it right, folks...
...as Congresswoman ~LORETTA SANCHEZ~ was pestered real hard last night by SEAN HANNITY -&- ALAN COLMES on the full FoX News Channel about "Whose Names are on the List of the ones ~CONDIT~ has had affairs with"..
...thanks in part to the all summer long pressure brought on the former Lovers of ~GARY CONDIT~, like a still silent ~LORETTA SANCHEZ~ herself, to come forward...
...to help the long-suffering LEVY Family find their missing daughter CHANDRA.
GOD SPEED...
But these news reports and press conferences are right out of a script of a bad movie. The local officials making fools of themselves while the deadly plot is unfolding.
I can hear the music beginning to build...
October 10, 2001, 05:30 PM
By AP Staff
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Federal authorities said Wednesday that a third person has been exposed to anthrax and the case has become the subject of a criminal investigation.
"There is another individual that has tested positive for presence of the virus," U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis at a news conference that included officials with the FBI, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state health department.
The 35-year-old woman, whose name wasn't released, has been hospitalized and is being treated with antibiotics. Her condition was immediately known.
Lewis said authorities are now conducting a criminal probe into the source of the anthrax, which killed a man last week and was found in the nasal passages of a co-worker.
Both men worked in the Boca Raton headquarters of American Media, a supermarket tabloid publisher.
Lewis said the investigation would attempt to determine how, when and why the bacteria got into the building.
The woman was one of more than 1,000 people who have been tested by health officials for presence of the dangerous bacterium. Most have recently been inside the AMI building.
Robert Stevens, 63, died Friday of inhaled anthrax, a rare and particularly lethal form of the disease. Mailroom co-worker Ernesto Blanco, 73, has been in a Miami hospital since Monday after he was found to have anthrax spores in his nose.
Yeah...sure VERN!
3rd person exposed to anthrax; case now criminal investigation
Houston Chronicle wire services
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Federal authorities said today that a third person has been exposed to anthrax and the case has become the subject of a criminal investigation.
"There is another individual that has tested positive for presence of the virus," U.S. Attorney Guy Lewis at a news conference that included officials with the FBI, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state health department.
The 35-year-old woman, whose name wasn't released, has been hospitalized and is being treated with antibiotics. Her condition was immediately known.
Lewis said authorities are now conducting a criminal probe into the source of the anthrax, which killed a man last week and was found in the nasal passages of a co-worker.
Both men worked in the Boca Raton headquarters of American Media, a supermarket tabloid publisher.
Lewis said the investigation would attempt to determine how, when and why the bacteria got into the building.
The woman was one of more than 1,000 people who have been tested by health officials for presence of the dangerous bacterium. Most have recently been inside the AMI building.
Robert Stevens, 63, died Friday of inhaled anthrax, a rare and particularly lethal form of the disease. Mailroom co-worker Ernesto Blanco, 73, has been in a Miami hospital since Monday after he was found to have anthrax spores in his nose.
The woman is also an employee of American Media and a nasal swab taken from her tested positive, officials said.
FBI agent Hector Pesquera said the anthrax contamination was limited to the building owned by American Media, which publishes six tabloids.
Pesquera said authorities had no evidence it was caused or created by a terrorist group and cautioned that "this is not a time for premature conclusions and inaccurate reporting."
Preliminary testing at federal labs on the anthrax that killed Stevens has found a possible match to a strain connected to an Iowa lab, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said further testing to definitively make the match could take several days.
FBI investigators, donning white moon suits and gas masks, spent a third day collecting evidence in the newspaper offices of the two men whose exposure to anthrax has prompted heightened fear of bioterrorism across the country.
The search has turned up no further sign of anthrax in Stevens' office since traces were discovered on his computer keyboard.
"We understand that this is a problem, and we will bring every resource that we have to bear on this problem, and I assure you we will resolve it," Lewis said.
Pharmacists in Boca Raton said their supply of the antibiotic Cipro was running dangerously thin -- or in some cases out -- as worried residents asked their doctors to fill out prescriptions.
Company employees began undergoing blood testing on Wednesday at the company's Delray Beach offices, leaving with gauze bandages on their arms and small American flags in their hands.
The Palm Beach County Health Department ordered the building closed for 30 days on Wednesday, said Boca Raton Fire Department Lt. Frank Montilli.
Health officials have emphasized that there is no public health threat. Anthrax tests at Stevens' home were negative, said Dr. Jean Malecki, director of the Palm Beach Health Department.
Write your congress critters. Demand that all non citizen Muslims be deported NOW. This will make the FBI's job easier in watching the remaining ones. They (the 'citizen' Moslems) may have to go too however.
If my 'culturist' sentiments bother you .... ask yourself this: "Was that fat lady leafing through the Natl. Enquirer in the line in front of me today sending anthrax spoors into the air around me?"
All the terr needs to do is infiltrate the infrastructure of The Sun and sprinkle a few ounces of anthrax into ONE press run.