Anthrax II

der Moench · Post by **der Moench** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 8:11 pm

Originally posted by Weasel:
 3 million (I feel sick just thinking about this)

It's kinda tricky: on the one hand, you really want to see him fined and punished for letting a "joke" progress to such a state; on the other hand, it was really only a joke ... ain't nobody laughing, now, I guess.

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 10:49 pm

Originally posted by Weasel:
Next: small pox

I might be wrong...but I believe I had shots to cover this when I was little (between 71 and 76)

Am I thinking of something else??

(I had chicken pox when I was little)

Smallpox vaccinations leave characteristic scars that don't fade much over time - I had them myself as a child and still carry the scars.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Oct 16, 2001 10:59 pm

Originally posted by der Moench:
It's kinda tricky: on the one hand, you really want to see him fined and punished for letting a "joke" progress to such a state; on the other hand, it was really only a joke ... ain't nobody laughing, now, I guess.

Not the kind of joke I get, at any rate.

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 6:19 am

Originally posted by Sojourner:
Smallpox vaccinations leave characteristic scars that don't fade much over time - I had them myself as a child and still carry the scars.

*has the scars too* They're kinda.... cool in a way

Ned Flanders · Post by **Ned Flanders** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 7:08 am

Here is an excerpt from the latest at CNN

CNN) - More than 20 people in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office have tested positive for exposure to anthrax, sources told CNN on Wednesday. More than 200 people had already begun taking the antibiobtic Ciprofloxacin, the drug therapy for the disease, as a precaution.

But FBI officials cautioned that the tests, performed after a letter containing a particularly virulent form of anthrax was delivered to Daschle's office, often yield false positives. Daschle's office, and those of 11 other senators in the Hart Senate Office Building, remain closed while investigators search for more signs of the bacteria.

The letter mailed to Daschle's office contained "a very potent form" of the bacteria, the senator said Tuesday.

Very scary stuff. If there is any link to those responsible for sept 11th hijackings, think how easily these people could spread small pox.

Sojourner · Post by **Sojourner** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 8:00 am

Shortly before the report on the congressional staffers testing positive for anthrax, Fox reported a boy in Texas was showing symptoms consistent with anthrax.

On the international front, while all the scares in Europe and elsewhere are proving to be only hoaxes thus far, Reuters reported:

In India's eastern village of Mollo Sarul 12 cattle were confirmed to have died from anthrax in the last eight days -- the first in 30 years in the village of 6,000 people.

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 8:07 am

Originally posted by Sojourner:
In India's eastern village of Mollo Sarul 12 cattle were confirmed to have died from anthrax in the last eight days -- the first in 30 years in the village of 6,000 people.

Dear me

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 8:11 am

I figured I might as well mention....

Unless you live in New England, you had to pay VERY close attention to hear this on the news.

Do you remember back in 1998 the "Meningitis" scary? 6 people died in Rhode Island all year from it. And it was like November so the media was flipping out and everyone had to get a meningitis shot. Well we had to break the record sooner or later, didn't we?

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Oct 17, 2001 9:06 am

Originally posted by Ned Flanders:
Very scary stuff. If there is any link to those responsible for sept 11th hijackings, think how easily these people could spread small pox.

If is a very big if. No such link has been established. I think we shouldn't let our imaginations run away us at a time when it could hardly help.

Let's remember, too, that this kind of media exposure has already produced epidemics in the past, simply because sociopaths come out of the woodworks when they think they can get a little coverage and some twisted revenge for no reason at all. The best example is the Tainted Tylenol Scare that occured quite a few years ago. Only when the media played it up did it become a national problem. It stopped being one after the government "requested" the media to give less coverage, since they were encouraging the developments. At the risk of looking like the money crazed industries they are, the media backed off, muttering about "government shackling," and the bottle tampering ground to a halt.