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Anthrax?

Mycroft

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Pentagon Mail Facility Tests Positive for Anthrax


Samples taken at a Pentagon mail facility have tested positive for anthrax, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services reported today, but officials do not yet know if the anthrax bacteria were live and thus capable of transmitting disease.

The spokesman, Bill Hall, said that further tests are being conducted at Fort Detrick to determine if the anthrax was live or if it was just a component of anthrax. Such testing normally takes 24 to 48 hours, but initial tests may be available by this afternoon. The anthrax confirmation was done through intricate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing overnight and confirmed the alert initially reported by a defense contractor laboratory in Richmond last week.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35943-2005Mar15.html
 
Yep, saw that. Now I have to wonder who they'll start blaming it on this time...
 
Cleon said:
Yep, saw that. Now I have to wonder who they'll start blaming it on this time...
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Who was blamed last time? All I remember was speculation without any concrete evidence.
 
Mycroft said:
Who was blamed last time? All I remember was speculation without any concrete evidence.
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Yeah, exactly. First it was Islamic terrorists. Then it was that poor schlub at the college. The media had a field day pointing the finger, and mysteriously shut up when it turned out they were full of it.

Wait! I know! It was Richard Jewell!
 
Mycroft said:
Who was blamed last time? All I remember was speculation without any concrete evidence.
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Well there was that anthrax lab found in the Maryland pond. That's evidence, but it was never connected to anybody conclusively.
 
BPSCG said:
**...aa-aarr-ccgh....can't...breathe... skkkkxxx...***

False alarm. Never even left my desk. Reason I've lived so long is I never pay any attention to the rumor mill.
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I have this image of you standing at your desk striking the washington crossing the delaware pose as you calmy continue to initial memos.... as all around you fall apart running in circles and jamming up into the exit doors.... ;)
 
NY Times today:

Health officials believe that a mix-up of samples in a Defense Department contractor's laboratory was behind an anthrax scare Monday and Tuesday that rattled the stock market, set the White House on alert, shut three post offices in the Washington area and led to more than 800 people being offered antibiotics.
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The Fool said:
I have this image of you standing at your desk striking the washington crossing the delaware pose as you calmy continue to initial memos.... as all around you fall apart running in circles and jamming up into the exit doors.... ;)
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More accurate would be me just taking another slurp of coffee while I try to figure out why my SQL package didn't work as expected. And the reaction of everyone else around here, as far as I could tell, was pretty much the same. We got an agency-wide email about a suspicious package that had been hauled off and was being investigated, then movedon.org.

Honestly, tuning out rumors has become so second nature to me that I didn't even believe September 11 when I first heard about it.
 
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