http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1186570878&source=big_barker
“That’s one of the challenges of anthrax,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, a senior analyst at the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. “The spores are very resistant.”
The 2001 letters — while scary — did not involve weaponized anthrax, Nuzzo said.
“To weaponize it, you make it more lethal. It has to make people sicker, or stay in the air longer, so more people breath it in,” Nuzzo said,
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As Van Harp, former head of Amerithrax once said, in using the term “weaponization,” people should define the term. It has a specific two-prong definition, Van Harp said.
The anthrax, by any one’s definition, was processed in such a way that made it float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. With the Daschle and Leahy product being highly concentrated.
When it turned up on Padanaram Road in Danbury last week, it was a shock -- there hadn't been case of the disease in the entire state in nearly 40 years.
They seem to have totally forgotten about Ottilie Lundgren.
But it's another example of how you cannot totally rely upon what you read in the media. Even hard-working and well-meaning newspaper reporters who do a lot of research for an article can make simple mistakes.