[ME] Florida and Bioterror

["Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@xxxxxxxx>]

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The United States Centers for Disease Control--which is, for you
non-Americans, the number one public health organization in the
US--is tentatively declaring the anthrax outbreak in Florida to be a
bioterror attack.

Senator Robert Graham, who represents Florida in Congress, has told
CNN that the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Minister of
Public Health, for you Europeans) has told him "the chance this
happened without some human intervention was zero."  Graham went on
to state that Secretary Thompson told him that it appeared to be
engineered, not naturally occurring; its genetic blueprint does not
match any strain known to veterinary science.

There have been 18 incidences of inhalation anthrax (including these
two recent ones) since 1901.  Draw your own conclusions just from
that alone on the likelihood of this being coincidence.

It is plausible that the United States has now been targeted by a
weapon of mass destruction--a biological warfare agent.  If so, then
someone with an IQ lower than my shoe size has just opened a very new
and very frightening chapter in the world's history.

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