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...shipment of fish has started to rot. It can also identify contaminants in perfumes or chemicals. But following the Sept. 11 attacks, the $7,995 Cyranose may have a new application. Last week Cyrano Sciences began conducting tests to see whether the Nose can detect the odor of the bacterium that causes anthrax...
American Legion conventioneers in Philadelphia were dying of a mysterious illness. Eventually, DISEASE DETECTIVES would discover the cause to be a bacterium spread through air-conditioning systems, but until then, near panic took hold...
...harrowing week, as many as 20,000 Americans were on antibiotics at the government's urging. The treatment perimeter in Washington, New York and New Jersey had expanded like a forest fire. Trace amounts of the bacterium (considered insufficient to cause infection) had been detected in 11 places in Washington, including the Supreme Court's off-site mail center. But it was not until a State Department employee developed inhalation anthrax that health officials began speculating that one or more undiscovered letters had yet to be found. The single letter to Senator Tom Daschle, while surprisingly potent, could not have...
...order to cause disease, at least 8,000 to 10,000 spores need to lodge deep in the lungs, in the tiniest air sacs known as alveoli. The warm, moist environment, and possibly the concentration of carbon dioxide in the lungs, stimulates the bacterium to emerge from its protective spore. As each bacterium reproduces, it releases toxins, which eventually spread throughout the body and destroy tissue and organs...
...Noted "I don't have anthrax ... I don't have anthrax ... I don't have it." George W. Bush, U.S. President, affirming three times in the course of a press conference that he has not been infected by the potentially fatal bacterium...