Posted on 10/04/2001 12:35:09 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Breaking news on FNC--a 63 year old man from Palm Beach County is in critical condition with anthrax
GandtheD
That's hype. So what if the efficiency stinks. If you inhale a small particle of infected slime, how much more agent will be in a particle a thousand times larger? These particles will infect the same as the little ones. The little ones may end up deeper in the lungs for a quicker kill, but...
Adjust the orifice size and delivery pressure...
How often does the Secretary of Health and Human Services get on TV to tell us about an "isolated case of anthrax"? Not very often. If anyone has whipped up hysteria or made us more paranoid than we already were, look to him.
This post is not directed at you, spunkets, because you did not make the comments. I'm just replying to the last post, which happened to be yours, LOL...
This is biological warfare, all bets are off.
This will kill Florida tourism and cause widespread panic in the streets.
This requires an equal response or it will never stop.
This is out of control, we need the government to do something about these people walking our streets.
INTERNMENT NOW!!!!!
Not exactly, thats why its so hard to make into a weapon form. It lays on the ground and thats why animals contract it, theyre always walking around snuffling the ground. Unless you spend a great deal of time sleeping on the ground in infested areas you will not catch it the same way animals do.
Humans generally get it through a break in the skin. Not too serious and easily treatable therefor not a very good weapon.
It has to be in an form that only the US and Russia are thought to have the capability to produce to be able to disperse it in the air and have the particles small enough to actually hang in the air long enough for you to breath enough to become infected.
Its in part a matter of how much you are exposed to. If you have ever petted or played with sheep you very likely have gotten a few spores of anthrax on you. Shepards and shearers are exposed to it constantly but over the course of a day only breath in something like 300 spores, not enough to overwhelm the immune system. It takes thousands of spores in your lungs simultaneously to overwhelm the immune system and cause a case of anthrax. Thats why it has to hang in the air so long for it to be a valuable weapon.
I'm detecting a pattern...
The droplets would fall to the ground right away. They dont jump up into your nose after they have hit the ground. If a cropduster flew over then you would have to be standing in the spray and subsequently smell it to try and figure out what it was before you would get enough to cause infection.
Could it be something as simple as this old guy just likes to "wrestle" with sheep?
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