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AMANDA BOWER has been reporting on the investigation into the hijackings and the anthrax attacks. She recently retraced the letter route of one of the Trenton postal workers infected with cutaneous anthrax. Talk to her on Tuesday...
...detention of the three scientists was just the latest in the so-far offstage effort to battle the most dreadful of the terror weapons Osama bin Laden would like to have in his arsenal: nuclear arms. Airborne anthrax and hijacked planes are little more than a murderous tease compared with the prospect of rogue nukes. Just what bin Laden has in his stockpiles, what he plans to do with it and what can be done to stop him are rapidly becoming the most pressing questions in the anti-terror wars. "The goal of terrorism is to spread panic," says...
...best reason to get the flu vaccine is that it protects against most flus--not that you're worried about contracting anthrax. While inhalational anthrax has killed only four people so far, many more could be at risk from flu-related complications. There's no need to compound the tragedy by making this year's influenza epidemic any worse...
...last week to get a flu shot. After all, 20,000 Americans each year die of influenza. And this year in particular, the mayor suggested, getting a flu shot might be an especially good idea, since it could help doctors distinguish between flu and the deadly inhalational form of anthrax. How? Both anthrax and flu exhibit strikingly similar symptoms--fever, chills and muscle aches--in the early days of the infection. Physicians would be quick to suspect anthrax in anyone who was vaccinated against flu and still developed fever and chills. That would give them a better chance to identify...
There are also plenty of reasons you might develop fever, chills and muscle aches that have nothing to do with either anthrax or flu. Indeed, doctors estimate that more than 80% of all flulike ailments each winter are caused by other groups of viruses, like the parainfluenza and picornavirus families. Getting vaccinated against flu can't protect you against suffering from these other respiratory ailments...