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...confirmed. The arrest of three other Moroccans two weeks ago in the nearby village of Tor Bella Monica suggested to some that a large terrorist cell could be at work. Morocco "is not what you'd consider a hotbed of Islamist activity," says a French antiterrorism official. "But the germ of extremism exists there, and it's not surprising that Moroccans have turned up within Islamist terror groups...
...humans. Less than diligent hand washing or improperly cooked meat could park you on the toilet for the next few days. And if you're sick enough to need medical treatment, you might be out of luck. Chicken Cipro is so closely related to human Cipro that any germ that has become resistant to the animal drug can shrug off the human one just as easily. Before 1996, when enrofloxacin was approved in the U.S. for use in poultry, the number of Campylobacter infections in people that were resistant to Cipro and its chemical cousins was negligible...
...over two months now, anti-abortion terrorists have openly threatened a germ-warfare campaign against many facilities that offer health care to women. In an apparently coordinated mailing, on Nov. 8, more than 200 Planned Parenthood health facilities and abortion clinics nationwide received envelopes containing white powder and a letter stating that the powder was anthrax. It was the second such wave of threats; 250 abortion clinics received similar letters last month. While none of the powder has tested positive for anthrax, the letters caused serious disruptions to the facilities as the FBI reported the mailings to be a coordinated...
...facility also tested smallpox, forms of plague and other, less commonly known, killer germs. "This is the best stuff the Soviets were able to come up with in 30 years of research," says a Western analyst in the Uzbek capital Tashkent. Before the scientists left Vozrozhdeniye, they tried to kill all the lethal spores they had cultured. With anthrax, they failed. "Anthrax is particularly persistent," says the analyst. "It's still there, but there's no telling where it is, no tubes labeled 'anthrax.'" Washington has had a cleanup of Vozrozhdeniye on its Central Asia to-do list for years...
...Just days after the White House accused the press corps of overplaying the anthrax story, the deadly germ had penetrated every branch of government, from the Vice President's mechanical letter opener to the postal facilities serving the CIA, the Supreme Court, the State Department and, of course, the White House and Congress. When D.C. mail clerk Joseph Curseen arrived at the hospital on Sunday with "the flu," he was sent home with stomach medicine and died the next day. Investigators who had swabbed down his post office hadn't told anybody to get tested or treated and hadn...