At present there are 3 known cases in Florida, including the man who died. There is now a case in New York of a woman who works for NBC who has cutaneous (skin) anthrax. Government officials have not yet found any links between the two ourbreaks and the terrorist acts of 9/11. Only time will tell.

The Centers for Disease Control has information about anthrax , including symptoms of the 3 kinds of infection. I am placing the symptoms list in the Heath section of the forum.

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I have put information in a topic Information About Biological and Chemical Weapons in the Healthy Living forum.

What evidence is there that it cannot be transmitted through tofu?

DrD:

Well..........!!!

Can it?

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Daryl

I know that a case in the 70's involved a man playing bongo drums who caught the infection because the drums were made of animal skin. Now let's watch out for leather shoes, belts and...

Tofu...well, maybe there's a "vegetarian" mutation just around the corner.

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As of today there are 18 known cases of anthrax, 3 deaths, and many infected buildings in New York, but especially Washington, D.C. The news is now saying that the anthrax in the Daschle letter was highly refined, contained a substance used by Iraq to keep the anthrax spores from clinging together (depending of who you listen to), and about 2 grams of them were in the letter.

The latest victim is a 61 year old woman with inhaled anthrax who works at a NY hospital. No one knows how she acquired the disease, as the previous cases have either been postal workers, or media employees.

I'm starting to look at my mail and wondering. . . .

They've found Anthrax in Indianapolis as well now. It is definitely spreading over a wider area. This seems totally bizarre considering the previous patterns.

I predicted that the Anthrax incidents would be an American version of Ontario's Walkerton tainted water scandal which killed 7 people and made 2,000 sick.

In Walkerton the first method of public disclosure was to calm people down. Now, almost 2 years later it was a major factor in our Premier's resignation.

Already I'm hearing that it (the Anthrax crisis) could cost the post office billions. Remember it is economic stuff that is prominent in all of our end-time scenarios.

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There doesn't seem to be any real Canadian connection yet!

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