[Shermy]

Of all the suspect actors in this play, the worst are the Canadians. They (their govt.) has been dismissive and if turns out to be antraz their English-language statements will be held out by doubters and conspiracy theorists as "proof."

I'm wondering - if it is antraz, could the flesh samples tested in Belem be the cause of the confusion? That is, they've decomposed, that could effect the germs too? The first tests in Rio Trombetas - were they flesh? Something else too? They would be fresher in the flesh.

I recall that the tests in America after 9/11 were often of the spores attached to the spreading medium - taken from walls, computer key boards, swabs from nasal passages - free of the effects of flesh decomposition.