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5 more with Anthrax |
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by Michael Walcher
(No verified email address) |
13 Oct 2001
Modified: 14 Oct 2001 |
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Five more employees at American Media Inc. have tested positive for exposure to anthrax, a company spokesman said Saturday. |
Saturday October 13 5:44 PM ET
5 More in Fla. Exposed to Anthrax
BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Five more employees at American Media Inc. have tested positive for exposure to anthrax, a company spokesman said Saturday.
Last week, a photo editor for The Sun supermarket tabloid died of the inhaled form of the disease, the first death in the United States related to anthrax in 25 years.
Two other co-workers were found to have been exposed to the disease. They have not become ill.
Gerald McKelvey, a spokesman for American Media Inc., said the company was notified about the five employees Saturday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites). He said he had no further information on the exposed employees or their conditions.
Health officials had been waiting for results of more than 35 anthrax tests checking employees and visitors to the company's headquarters. About 20 postal employees who handled the company's mail were also awaiting test results.
On Friday, the FBI (news - web sites) agent said test results of 965 people who were in the building recently found no new infections.
story CUT from www.Yahoo.com AP report on Homepage |
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fear spreads quicker than anthrax |
by Brian
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14 Oct 2001
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It's amazing that once doctors resume testing for anthrax, they find it.
since the symptoms of anthrax are similar, almost identical, to pneumonia, it's quite possible that people have been dying from anthrax but have been diagnosed as having pneumonia. not that far-fetched if you consider that anthrax has been considered to have been eliminated from the world for the past 25+ years. if you think something's gone, you don't test for it. i suspect anthrax still is around, but not identified, until now with all the fear and attention given to it again.
just a thought. |
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anthrax was not "considered eliminated" |
by David Young
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14 Oct 2001
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In response to Brian's comments, three things:
1) The symptoms of inhalation-anthrax infection are severe breathing problems, but I have read nowhere that the symptoms are indistinguishable from pneumonia. Can anyone back that up?
2) Maybe lay people thought anthrax had been eliminated for the past 25 years, but I do not think doctors or epidemiologists did. Witness Web pages at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that were dedicated to the present dangers of anthrax before the current scare.
To find out more about anthrax, search on the keyword "anthrax" at google.com. Reliable sites (CDC, universities) will be listed. |
