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...next day, Tuesday, Oct. 16, Curseen came down with flulike symptoms. Thinking it was indeed the flu, he kept working. On Wednesday, more than two dozen workers on Capitol Hill tested positive for exposure, and members of Congress began to fret. The bacteria is "very potent and clearly produced by someone who knows what he or she is doing," said Senate leader Daschle. Those alarm bells were prematurely silenced, though, by Tom Ridge, the country's new Director of Homeland Security. "There's no results that would suggest that it has been quote, weaponized, unquote." But 40 members of Daschle...
...consequences are the long-term ones associated with placing tens of thousands of people on any broad-spectrum antibiotic. Overusing these drugs, physicians have long warned, will permit resistant strains to flourish. One of the scariest examples is the appearance in 1997 of a particularly potent strain of staph bacteria resistant to vancomycin, which used to be the last line of defense. It was partly to avert such a catastrophe that the CDC made its decision last week recommending the switch to doxycycline, which is seen as equally effective. "It would certainly be healthier to have a better balance...
...nation's post-Sept. 11 trauma, but it's just one of many potential weapons in bioterrorism's terrible arsenal. How serious a threat are they? Or, for that matter, how deadly are the many other disease carriers, ranging from salmonella to drug-resistant TB strains to "flesh eating" bacteria, that might be unleashed by terrorists? What do they portend for the safety of the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink? Here are a few of the scenarios America may need to be prepared...
...Investigators are particularly mystified by the recent death of Kathy Nguyen, a New York hospital worker who had no regular contact with mail. Until the 61-year-old Bronx resident died Wednesday from a case of inhalation anthrax, health officials thought they'd cornered the bacteria in the postal system...
...school of thought that places the Tom Daschle letter (which reportedly contained extremely high-grade anthrax) at the center of a widening web of diagnoses. That would mean most of the inhalation cases are directly traceable to that one letter and its miles-long trail of virulent bacteria...