From a Brasilia newspaper:
http://www2.correioweb.com.br/cw/EDICAO_20030428/pri_bra_280403_112.htm? CHEMICAL WEAPON Suspicion of terrorism The death of the Egyptian Ibrahim Sayed, in Port of Trumpets (Pará), can have been caused for anthrax. Finding of the contratest leaves in the end of this week Leonardo Sent Cavalcanti special Tabatinga (AM)? The death of the Egyptian Ibrahim Sayed Ibrahim, in Port of Trumpets (Pará), can have been caused for the bacillus of the anthrax.
Ibrahim passed badly in the ship where he worked, that he was anchored in the city. He did not have time of being helped. according to superintendent of Polícia Federal (PF) of Pará, Geraldo Araujo, everything points with respect to an infection for anthrax. finding of the Legal Medical Institute of Belém informed that it was victim of a generalized infection provoked for the substance?
Colleagues of Ibrahim had affirmed that it brought obtains an order to be taken to Canada. The luggage of the Egyptian is being analyzed for the Institute Evandro Chagas. The result of the examinations must be ready up to 2 of May. The body of the Egyptian was placed in a wooden ballot box protected by a steel plate and is in the IML of Belém. The boat where the Egyptian worked was withheld in the port of Halifax, in Canada, later that Brazil alerted the Canadian government on the contamination suspicion.
No member of the crew presented infection symptoms until the moment. Ibrahim arrived at Brazil of airplane and if he joined to the crew in Macapá. In the occasion, he did not present no indication to be sick.
Shermy, I wonder if he touched this stuff, that's how it got into his system, rather than inhaled, as someone rejected the possibility of inhalation.....if his fingers had cuts, which they most likely did if he was a boatman.....that's how it got into his system. Or, touching food after touching whatever was in the suitcase...