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...chance we may never find out the cause," says CDC director David Spencer. "I think we will. But there are times when disease baffles us all. It may be sporadic, a one-time appearance." Whatever the solution--or lack of one--to the mystery of the Philadelphia killer, the outbreak served as a jarring reminder that all the marvels of modern technology have not yet made the U.S. immune to a sudden pestilence...
...When the dose was 8,000 to 10,000 spores per animal, about half the monkeys died. But that doesn't prove that a lot fewer spores won't cause an infection. Says Philip Brachman, a professor of public health at Emory University who investigated a naturally occurring 1957 outbreak in Manchester, N.H., among millworkers who handled infected animal hides: "We don't know for certain what dosage of the organisms causes inhalation anthrax...
...been beaten. Rather than put up a fight to hold onto the capital, Taliban forces retreated from Kabul overnight Monday, and by Tuesday morning a Northern Alliance advanced guard had entered the city. Initial reports suggested the Alliance had simply sent in a policing force to prevent an outbreak of chaos in the vacuum left by the Taliban's departure - Washington has repeatedly urged the Alliance to keep its forces out of Kabul, to avoid antagonizing the Pashtun Afghans who predominate in the south and their key regional ally, Pakistan. The Alliance ostensibly remains committed to allowing a U.N.-mandated...
...Just as things couldn't get much more bleak for the USPS, Postmaster General John Potter appeared before a Senate committee Tuesday to tell lawmakers his agency will require several billion dollars to recover from losses tied to the anthrax outbreak...
Trade has never got along very well with terror or war. International commerce contracted sharply after the outbreak of World War I. A round of protectionist measures in the 1920s and '30s contributed mightily to the Great Depression and World War II. And in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, shipments were held up for days at the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico, and at airports around the world, forcing Detroit assembly lines to shut down for lack of parts and spurring U.S. and foreign executives to seek suppliers closer to home...