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...things that seem to be causing the Carter Administration continuing woe these days are 1) overreacting and 2) sending out conflicting signals, especially where the Soviet Union is concerned. Consider the big anthrax scare...
...stockpiling of germ-warfare weapons. As evidence, the spokesman cited a mysterious epidemic last spring that apparently killed hundreds of people in Sverdlovsk, a city of 1.2 million some 850 miles from Moscow. The rapid spread of the infection led U.S. intelligence analysts to suspect that the cause was anthrax, a deadly bacterial disease, and that the contamination could not have come from natural sources. Thus, according to State, the epidemic "may have resulted from inadvertent exposure of the populace to a biological-warfare agent" from a nearby factory manufacturing banned weapons...
...Department of Agriculture is watching for any outbreak of African swine fever, a disease deadlier than anthrax or hog cholera. Swine fever is said to be epidemic in Cuba and it is possible that an imported Cuban ham could carry the disease to Mexico, thence to the U.S. No known vaccine exists to combat...
From the Old Mole: On the banks of the Mississippi below St. Louis, there are signs warning picnickers not to eat their lunch on or near the banks. The spray from the river contains typhoid, colitis, hepatitis, diarrhea, anthrax, salmonella, tuberculosis, and polio. It is an open sewer. If you place a fish in a container of river water, it will die in sixty seconds. Dilute the water a hundred times with clear water, and the fish will die in twenty-four hours...
...parrot fever) which could be sprayed over large areas to infect food and water. People in the psittacosis target site would develop acute pulmonary infection, chills, fever; some would become delirious, and ten percent might die. Other diseases, which the Army was prepared to massproduce, were equally lethal, including anthrax, Q-fever and tularemia (rabbit fever...