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This suggested, says Walker, that doctors must find better ways to drain lymph from around the organs, in order to relieve the pressure. And they need to develop an antitoxin, since even when antibiotics kill off the bacteria, the poison that the bug has emitted can still kill the patient. There is also an anthrax vaccine, made exclusively for the U.S. government by a private manufacturer named BioPort in Lansing, Mich. But in 1999 the FDA asked the company to stop shipment of its vaccine until BioPort instituted better quality-control measures. The company expects to begin shipping vaccines again...
Anthrax is a disease caused by the rod-shaped bacterium Bacillus anthracis. When not actively infecting sheep or moose or people, the bug forms hard-shelled spores and goes into a kind of hibernation. These spores are hardy little things, resistant to sunlight, heat and disinfectant. They have been known to survive in soil for 80 years...
...contract anthrax by inhaling a lot of spores (at least 8,000 to 10,000), by eating contaminated meat or by coming into contact with the bacterium through an open wound. The same bug causes all three forms of the disease, but anthrax caused by inhaling is by far the most dangerous...
...will, right? Considering that the Big Bug now seems to be swirling around New York with unsettling regularity - not to mention getting mailed there from New Jersey, where a good portion of the displaced financial community fled after the planes hit - the big-money investors took it pretty well. All this meant was that now no one would open the mail of staffer-drenched folks like Tom Brokaw and Pataki - financial types do it all by computer anyway - and it?s not as if the Post Office was ever a good investment...
...longtime pacifist, I have always deplored our tendency to dehumanize and demonize our adversaries. Not this time. By savagely slaughtering thousands of innocent people, the terrorists have forfeited their membership in civilized society and deserve the same regard a bug zapper shows a swarm of stinging insects. RICK ANSORGE Macungie...