MD Woman being tested for Anthrax after visiting local pond

1 posted on 08/12/2003 12:49:55 PM PDT by nwctwx

2 posted on 08/12/2003 12:54:02 PM PDT by freeperfromnj

Hmmmm.....maybe the Feebs had the right idea but the wrong pond?

What do you think?

Leni

3 posted on 08/12/2003 12:54:54 PM PDT by MinuteGal

4 posted on 08/12/2003 12:55:29 PM PDT by Shermy

I caught a bass yesterday in Clopper Lake that had wierd black blotches on it's lips and fins. Can fish get anthrax?

5 posted on 08/12/2003 12:57:33 PM PDT by ko_kyi

Can fish get anthrax?

I'm sure that where Billy Clinton swims, everything gets lesions.

6 posted on 08/12/2003 12:58:40 PM PDT by Young Rhino (Condi Rice/Jeb Bush '08)

Best to check with your local ASCP!

7 posted on 08/12/2003 1:04:32 PM PDT by JustPiper (Recall Blago! Recall Blago!!! Recall Blago!!! Protest Taxes!!!)

Me thinx your right.

8 posted on 08/12/2003 1:04:50 PM PDT by JustPiper (Recall Blago! Recall Blago!!! Recall Blago!!! Protest Taxes!!!)

She probably caught it by being out in the wild (like they originally claimed about that man in Florida). Nothing to see here, move along.

9 posted on 08/12/2003 1:08:03 PM PDT by weegee

It's possible.

Haven't been able to find anything more on this story.

Anyone?

10 posted on 08/12/2003 1:08:12 PM PDT by nwctwx

From WBAL:

State Testing Woman, Dog For Possible Anthrax

Woman Possibly Came In Contact With Anthrax While Walking Dog

UPDATED: 4:03 p.m. EDT August 12, 2003

FREDERICK, Md. -- Federal authorities drained a Frederick pond looking for traces of anthrax, but now they may have the break they were looking for from a woman walking her dog.

The woman was recently walking her dog near the drained pond when she and the animal developed the same kind of lesions associated with anthrax.

State health workers are now checking to determine if the woman and her dog contracted anthrax.

11 posted on 08/12/2003 1:08:59 PM PDT by freeperfromnj

To: freeperfromnj

break out the CIPROL

12 posted on 08/12/2003 1:10:05 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Still think the Administration's BIG failure was not to dispense with N.Korea before Iraq!)

If true, then the 2001 Anthrax Attacks were 'domestic home grown' terrorism, not 'overseas islamofascist' terrorism, made to look that way with those bogus envelopes giving the faulty impression of a 'furriner' behind the whole thing (my premise all along).......oh well, we'll see if we all need to take a shower on this one or not. Could be vey series, then again, maybe not.

13 posted on 08/12/2003 1:19:17 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Still think the Administration's BIG failure was not to dispense with N.Korea before Iraq!)

If there were monkeys in the area, it might be monkey pox.

14 posted on 08/12/2003 1:25:20 PM PDT by searchandrecovery (America will not exist in 25 years.)

To: freeperfromnj

What do I think?

That place was gone through with a fine tooth comb. No anthrax found.

Now it's there.

Suspect story.

But here's my guess: woman and dog sat in, walked through, or some other way got in contact with a clutch of brown recluse spiders. Venom reaction looks the same.

15 posted on 08/12/2003 1:36:53 PM PDT by Shermy

Time to throw the cuffs on that smarmy bastard Hatfill.

16 posted on 08/12/2003 1:40:33 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)

Hey, shermy, will ya lend me your tinfoil hat? I'm going to a recluse spider convention.

Good article on Hatfill--some are calling him the new Mengele:

http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/06/rozen-l-06-27.html

17 posted on 08/12/2003 1:47:02 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)

More Hatfill. What kind of depraved mind thinks up scenarios like this one described in detail by Hatfill?

As a government researcher, he had top-level clearances at Fort Detrick, the military center for the study of germ and biological warfare, and until recently was employed by a major defense contractor specializing in countering bioterror attacks. Along the way, Hatfill participated in a 1998 George Washington University conference, at which he unfolded a startling plan for coping with tens of thousands of victims of an anthrax attack brought against a large U.S. city.

Hatfill's idea is to build up special "disaster evacuation" trains made up of linked shipping containers strung out behind an engine. The train would be loaded with antibiotics, and would include a command center, an intelligence section, and deployable vaccination stations.

The trains would also feature "intensive-care patient cars" built with special shock absorbers to cushion the ride. Patients would be brought to the train from the scene of the attack and speedily loaded on board. There would be "cut out cars" that could be dropped off to serve as temporary HQs and field hospitals. "Along with this comes a mortuary embalming station," he told the audience. "This was originally developed by Arms Corps in South Africa with the concept that patients are embalmed on-site. This negates mass burials or graves. The remains are preserved. It can handle 800 bodies an hour. The bodies are embalmed, put into body bags, and stored at room temperature for later burial when the incident is over."

All told, Hatfill said, 27 such trains would be required; once in place they would be but five or six hours from every major city in the nation.

(From the Village Voice.)

18 posted on 08/12/2003 1:57:16 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)

had wierd black blotches on it's lips and fins

I've never seen 'black blotches', but lip and fin damage often occurs when fish are kept in some kind of pen. Usually they are bloody looking, but if they were healing, I don't know if that would be the way a fish would 'scab'. Does any of that sound possible?

19 posted on 08/12/2003 3:16:49 PM PDT by StriperSniper (Make South Korea an island)

Means nothing. Anthrax DOES occur naturally in the wild, and there have always been sporadic cases of it throughout the US every year.

20 posted on 08/12/2003 3:19:11 PM PDT by Timesink

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