[WL-law]

I read about the Florida doctor or pharmacist who treated/saw the rash on Atta's hands.

Well, actually, your recall has merged elements of both sources. There is a pharmacist who was approached by one of the hijackers seeking medicine, a week or so prior to 9-11. There was also a doctor who was visited by another of the hijackers, and the doctor observed unusual symptoms that, once the anthrax attacks occurred, he realized were consistent with anthrax exposure.

[okie01]

Specifically, the pharmacist was approached by two of the hijackers for salve or balm to treat reddened, inflamed hands. The pharmacist's analysis of the skin condition was that the hands had been immersed in bleach, as if in an attempt to disinfect them.

A third hijacker went to an emergency room to get treatment for a lesion on his leg, ostensibly created by tripping over a piece of luggage. Anti-biotics were prescribed. Subsequently, the doctor concluded that the lesion was almost certainly cutaneous anthrax -- a diagnosis which did not occur to him at the time.