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To: HipShot
Why don't you look up something useful, like the difference in density between natural and weaponized anthrax.

Next time get your facts straight before picking a fight. Then go soak your head.

Try here:
Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak incubation data

6. INCUBATION PERIOD

From I to 7 days, although incubation periods up to 60 days are possible. (In the Sverdlovsk outbreak, incubation periods extended up to 43 days.)

ADDENDUM

Data from the Sverdlovsk outbreak indicate a modal incubation time of approximately 10 days for inhalational anthrax. However, the onset of symptoms occurred up to six weeks after the reported date of exposure. Such long incubation times presumably reflect the ability of viable anthrax spores to remain in the lungs for many days. Longer incubation periods may be associated with smaller inocula.

Source: Dixon TC, Meselson M, Guillemin J, and Hanna PC. Anthrax. New England J Medicine 341, 815-826, 1999.

3,543 posted on 08/21/2004 11:48:53 PM PDT by EternalHope (Boycott everything French forever. Including their vassal nations.)
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To: EternalHope

Re- diseases- I still think they would be looking for something contagious....


3,576 posted on 08/22/2004 12:49:30 PM PDT by jerseygirl
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To: EternalHope

This is the second time you've picked a fight with me about something you have no clue about. You have absolutely no idea whatsoever about what you are talking about, and obviously you lack the reasoning ability to figure it out.

As I said before, we would have known already if anthrax was dispersed. If you would pay attention to density issues and incubation time, you would know this. With an airborne incubation of 1 to 6 days depending on infection density, there is no way that you'll convince my that everyone who may have been exposed was in tip-top shape, with no repiratory issues, no infections, no illnesses. We would have known already based on that fact alone, even at minimal density.

You'd rather fight and cause a distraction than learn.

Be defensive on your own time.

Don't address me again.


3,619 posted on 08/22/2004 4:30:55 PM PDT by HipShot (EOM couldn't cut the head off a beer with a chainsaw)
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