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Most likely the communities are relatively close to the hospitals named in Suffolk County, as I doubt there is any "specialization" available anywhere for this rare occurrence. Unless they are the only ones with this chamber.
I wonder if they'll give us more details.

I would like to think that the towns involved are way out on the island where it's woodsy and very rural. And I do believe Mather Hosp. is one of a few with this chamber. The hospital spokesperson would not say what towns they were from. I could see not giving names or condition for privacy reasons but wonder why they won't give the locations.

A friend of mine in Ohio was bitten by one of these things, in the late seventies. Her brother had unwittingly brought it home from college in his suitcase, just in time for Christmas (which she spent in the hospital, where the doctors spent a great deal of time trying to figure out what the hell could have bitten her like that). It was extremely painful. I don't know where they get this "six to eight week" healing period business. It took about that long just for the swelling to go down in her case. Her wound, on her upper arm, was about five inches across at its worst point, but five years later she still had a nasty-looking scar the size of a silver dollar. It might be down to the size of a quarter by now.

There are worse things out there than cutaneous anthrax. If I had to choose between that and a brown recluse spider bite, I would definitely pick anthrax.