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
The yield would be low but the effect of terror would be enormus....
Growing up a large quantity of Anthrax while maintaining virulence, and then succesfully aeosolizing it so that a large number of people become infected is, I think, quite difficult.
Puffing around some spores and infecting one or two people would be easy, I fear.
What is the goal here? If you want to spread terror, a few scattered cases of Anthrax will do very nicely. You don't have to kill many people before our economy grinds to a halt. People will be afraid to leave the house.
I suspect the media and the government are putting on a full-court press to try and suppress panic here.
And that explains why they would hit a Tabloid Publisher. No way the Government will be able to keep it quiet with those people involved. Whatever the story is, it will be front page of all three of their tabloids.
So9
Tommy Thompson didn´t even look like he was telling the truth. I said to my husband at the time "He is lying and he looks pretty uncomfortable about it"....