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Dubyagee, that is a point I hadn't considered. My advice has been to act as if it's going to be a bad flu year (which it is supposed to be, anyway) and change behavior accordingly. Our habit of going to work sick could cost the lives of millions if a deadly strain of flu hits us, and even a mildly debilitating strain could really hurt our economy at a time like this. People mistake luck for a law of the universe! Especially people who don't know the history of epidemics. We're RIPE FOR A DEVASTATING FLU YEAR and even before 9/11 they were saying this year's strain predictions are scary. But I decided that the terrorists were not going to prove competent at distribution of anthrax, IF they're the ones who killed the man in Florida. My theory was that they expected many, many more to die.

But I heard Dr. Larry Wayne Harris, microbiologist and author of a book on bacterial warfare that was published several years ago, on KTOK-AM 1000 here in the OKC metro, and he has changed my mind. He said that one woman terrorist with a diaper bag and one babyfood jar full of anthrax spores could kill ten thousand people if she stood in one of those tunnels in stadiums and shook the contents into the wind that whooshes through into the stadium. (I've never been in a stadium, so I have only a vague idea of what he's talking about.) If that happens, the only thing we've got going for us is the fact that anthrax isn't contagious from person to person. To clean up the stadium, however, might not even be possible....

But I heard Dr. Larry Wayne Harris, microbiologist and author of a book on bacterial warfare that was published several years ago, on KTOK-AM 1000 here in the OKC metro, and he has changed my mind.

The cheese heads will flame you on that one. Do a search of him on here. I posted a thread yesterday, by a doctor, who listed reasons why we shouldn't believe Harris. Personally, I'm not convinced. See the second bold quote in the (long) article and you'll see the good doctor himself may not know what he's talking about......

I believe the guy could be very legit, but someone's interested in destroying him....