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Pick up a piece of fruit--a common red fruit, the kind that keeps the doctor away. What do you see? An apple? Not really. You see a bulbous round of apple skin. Maybe a piece of stem. What you don't see is white flesh, black seeds, core--99% of what makes an apple an apple...
...around September 25th (the letter contained a powder substance, which tested negative for the disease). She reported the letter to the authorities, began getting tested for anthrax and started taking the antibiotic Cipro. She tested negative until this week, when she began exhibiting symptoms, including a lesion on her skin. FBI and CDC officials are on the scene in New York City; Mayor Giuliani says parts of Rockefeller Center will be closed off for a few days, and other NBC employees will be tested...
...About 95 percent of the world's anthrax cases are cutaneous, or traced to the skin...
...Cutaneous anthrax can be contracted via contact with livestock - ranchers and animal handlers are often at risk for the disease, which manifests as skin rashes or blisters...
...microorganism so it?s invisible to the naked eye. Even the infectious dose, which is between 8,000 and 10,000 spores, is smaller than a speck of dust. It?s totally odorless and tasteless as well. There are other ways to get anthrax, via the skin, for example, but the inhaled version is the most lethal...