[OWK]

Saturday night she identified what she thought was anthrax in a blood sample of a patient, except that it appeared to be gram negative, whatever that means.

If it's gram negative, then it isn't bacillus anthracis (Anthrax)

[nevergore]

What no-one has mentioned to this point is that our medical sleuths had to know last week (once this guy was admitted/diagnosed) that there was Antrax at this guy's office that was not naturally occurring.....Our CDC is not inept and coupled with the FBI would have been focused like a laser beam....

Our medical teams from the CDC did not have this revalation yesterday......The first places checked would be home and office....24 hours for a culture and firm confirmation.....

This means that Tommy Thompson's press conference last week was a sham....The intent was to suppress a panic in the hope that the inicident was isolated....

How these offices became infected is still speculative but the fact that this is NOT naturally occuring leaves pause.

The terrorists may be unable to successfully deliver large quanities of weapon grade anthrax to the general populace but apparently they seem content in delivering small amounts of regular run-of-the-mill anthrax in non-military manner.

The yield would be low but the effect of terror would be enormus......

NeverGore