If the WTC and Pentagon had still been standing, this would have received zero airplay.
Bin Laden has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. We have become a nation of twitchy, panic-stricken shills.
Stand erect, quit cowering, entrust yourselves to the loving arms of the Almighty, then go about your daily business.
Don't really or maybe don't want to believe it is an attack.Hoping for coincidence.
Victory or Death!!
I am not interested in giving our enemies any ideas, so I am not going to state what this method would be.
The thing to watch for is if we start to see other "isolated" cases of Anthrax crop up over the next few days and weeks, not clustered in one location but widely dispersed. If this pattern develops, look for the gov't to continue to claim that these are "isolated" cases "not related to terrorism" for as long as they can to avoid panic. My advice is that if you see such a pattern develop, you cancel all travel plans and stay home.
Apparently, it's an isolated case and health officials do not believe it is terrorism. There was an anthrax case earlier this year in Texas....
I know we're all on edge, but let's not jump to conclusions! If we live our lives being scared, we have let them win. Let us enjoy the time we have on this earth with our loved ones!
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A 63-year-old man has been hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax, Florida Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan said Thursday.
Anthrax has been developed by some countries as a possible biological weapon, but Brogan said there was no indication the illness was related to bioterrorism.
The Lantana, Fla. man, whose name was not released, checked into a hospital on Tuesday and it was initially believed he had meningitis, Brogan said. But testing and X-rays showed that it was pulmonary anthrax, an extremely lethal disease. It is treated with antibiotics.
Florida Secretary of Health John Agwunobi said the disease is not contagious and there is no indication that anyone else has it. The disease, while rare, can be caught naturally.
Brogan said the man had recently traveled to North Carolina and became ill shortly after he returned. The incubation period for the disease can be 60 days.
Tim O'Connor, spokesman for the Palm Beach health department, said officials believe the case is isolated and it is "very likely" to be fatal.
Palm Beach County health officials have scheduled a news conference Thursday afternoon to discuss the case.
Anthrax is a spore-forming bacterium often carried by livestock that is especially virulent if inhaled. The disease causes pneumonia and the spores germinate and spread through the lungs, releasing toxin.
There is a vaccine to prevent the disease.
Anthrax can be caught by handling infected animals, eating contaminated meat or breathing in anthrax spores. All forms are rare, but the most recent cases - including ones in Texas and North Dakota - have been so-called cutaneous cases resulting from handling animals.
During the 20th century, only 18 cases of inhaled anthrax have been reported in the United States, the most recent in 1976.
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