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...reservation, taking samples of food, water and soil, as well as combing through the coats of cows, sheep and dogs for hair, ticks, fleas and fecal matter. "We've excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria are among the suspects: Mycoplasma fermentans and Chlamydia pneumoniae, both of which can cause fatal lung inflammations. But topping the list of possible culprits is a virus...
Until today, officials in the former Soviet Union could claim that a 1979 anthrax epidemic in Russia which killed 68 people was caused by tainted meat...
...anthrax bacteria, which most commonly affects cattle, were found in lymph nodes which drain the lungs. This suggests that victims inhaled the anthrax spores. From there, the bacteria spread through the body...
...pretty confident that it was airborne [as opposed to being from meat]," Meselson said in a phone interview Saturday. "The most plausible source is the military base, and they do say they were working with [the anthrax bacteria] for a vaccine...
...could be used to match the strain of anthrax found with a sample from the military base, if the Russian government is willing to provide...