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...surfaced in Florida. And while much of the attendant hysteria has dissipated, myriad questions have not. Where did the spores come from? Who sent them? Are there more contaminated letters still in circulation? While little is known for sure, the ongoing investigation has yielded some clues as to the bacteria's origin. Meanwhile, health officials are offering some workers a new way to keep anthrax - and, they hope, fear...
...nothing about who has been spreading the disease through the mail and why--and the death of Ottilie Lundgren of Oxford, Conn., from inhalation anthrax makes things even more confusing. It's hard to imagine that the woman, 94, was a target. Her mailbox had no sign of the bacteria, and though her aging immune system may have been less resistant to spores than a younger person's, investigators are baffled. Unlike Kathy Nguyen, the New York City hospital worker who died four weeks ago after contracting an equally mysterious case of anthrax, Lundgren rarely left her house...
Saddam Hussein has long been known to be developing these types of weapons, and the U.S. has continuously tried to keep sanctions in place to prevent him from realizing his goals. When the anthrax attacks began, many experts wondered whether the weapons-quality bacteria were created in Iraqi facilities; were Iraq to obtain weapons of mass destruction, there is no question into whose hands they would fall—and against whom they would be used...
...Technology and the author of the company’s paper, pointed out that the egg cells used were unfertilized, which meant that they had no chance of developing into human beings. These researchers are creating and destroying life no more than antibiotic researchers are brutally slaughtering millions of bacteria cells...
These days, Langlois' equipment is supplied by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, where the biologist has been working for two years on a piece of equipment that is suddenly commanding great interest: a continuous air-monitoring system that can detect within an hour the presence of any bacteria or virus in a basketball stadium, shopping mall or other indoor place. "It's like a smoke alarm" for harmful biological agents, says Langlois...