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Harvard’s health departments have kicked into high gear in the last few days in preparation for the unlikely event of a bioterrorism attack on University soil...
...bacterium that causes the disease, bacillus anthracis, is found naturally in soil throughout the country. Most cases of anthrax until this month have been caused by exposure to parts of infected animals...
What kind of ally is a country whose leaders profess solidarity with the U.S. but whose people--apparently some of them, anyway--commit mass murder on American soil, or sit around Riyadh coffee shops applauding those who do? Answer: an uneasy one. As it moves toward military action, the U.S. remains concerned about popular unrest in Arab and Islamic states around the world, including Saudi Arabia. (It was concerned enough, in fact, that alarms went off on Saturday, when a bomb exploded outside a shop in the Saudi city of Khobar, killing two. Initial reports, however, were that the incident...
...bacteria responsible for anthrax, for one, nestle in soil and animals for years, sometimes even decades. Over the past century, 18 Americans have fatally inhaled anthrax spores. The victims include a San Francisco woman who played bongo drums made from infected skins, and gardeners who handled fertilizer made with ground bone from infected animals...
...Tucker:Anthrax is a bacterium, but when it?s exposed to air, it forms a spore resembling a seed. The spore is very rugged, and very persistent. If it?s introduced into the soil in that spore form, it can live for years, even decades. That?s the form it would probably be take if it were used as a biological weapon - spores introduced into the air via some delivery method...