[Yankee]

Btw, the Fort Detrick guy is not someone I trust to tell the whole truth. If this strain is common, as he said, why haven't we identified it yet, with hundreds of strains on file?

IMHO you answered your own question.

It is common, ie: not enhanced, because it is succeptable to all the antibiotics that were tested against it.

There are thousands, not hundreds of strains on file, therefore it takes time to analyze and identify the strain.

[keri]

That's a good point, but quite a few people are looking at this strain out of the hundreds on file, including the professor that identified the non-infectious strain that Aum Shinrikyo used in Japan. I'm not saying you are wrong, just that I'm doubtful this is "common."

We don't know if it's common, because the strain hasn't been identified. At least one researcher thinks it may never be identified.

Maybe the Fort Detrick guys are using "common" and "naturally occurring" interchangeably. I don't know, but I wish they'd use more precise terms, and stop treating us like we're proles.