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...there may be trace amounts of anthrax floating around our vast and labyrinthine postal system. Does this mean we should all panic? Start opening our mail in a vacuum-sealed hallway? The short answer, as you probably guessed, is no. For a more considered response, TIME.com spoke with Dr. David Straus, Dr. David Straus, professor of microbiology and immunology at the Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock...
...David Straus: On the one hand, we can?t tell people not to worry, that there?s absolutely no anthrax out there, because we don?t have that guarantee. On the other hand, the average citizen shouldn?t be overly concerned about opening their mail...
...note that both women who appear to have contracted fatal cases of inhalation anthrax from cross-contaminated mail were older, and the older a person is, the more likely they are to suffer a lethal infection from a dose that is far below lethal levels for someone with a healthy immune system. Now of course those two women may have coincidentally both received letters contaminated with a huge dose of anthrax, say a million spores, which would probably kill anyone, but that seems unlikely...