Urgent - 51 Labs In 17 States With Questionable Anthrax
Source: CNN
POSTED: 01:41 PM CDT Jun 03, 2015
(CNN) -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work told a Pentagon press conference that 51 labs in 17 states, plus the District of Columbia and three countries, may have received suspect shipments of anthrax. Work said he expects the numbers to go up as the Defense Department still has several original lots to test. The Pentagon believes there is no hazard to the general public but cannot say how many lab workers may have come into contact with the suspect shipments.
Read more: http://www.kspr.com/news/politics/urgent-51-labs-in-17-states-with-questionable-anthrax/21051736_33379804
Warpy
(111,277 posts)If it was, buy stock in Bayer, Cipro sales are going to go up quickly.
Non weaponized live anthrax isn't nearly as big a threat.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Warpy
(111,277 posts)If they're testing air filtration systems, they'd need dead weaponized spores.
That's the first thing that came to mind.
Live anthrax spores that haven't been weaponized are too heavy to diffuse through the air and wouldn't be such a huge problem. Animals who pick it up do so from the soil. Most cases of human anthrax are cutaneous (skin) anthrax from doing things like shearing sheep and sorting the wool.
valerief
(53,235 posts)global1
(25,253 posts)Are we getting a straight story here?
valerief
(53,235 posts)http://www.historycommons.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=anthraxattacks&anthraxattacks_other=anthraxattacks_patriot_act
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Lovely.
gvstn
(2,805 posts)Youre a better googler than I!
gvstn
(2,805 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)I can see weather warnings, or news about gunmen on the loose, being 'urgent' - everyone in an area might have to do something. But they shipped the anthrax to labs, not private citizens. Surely they're informing each lab too, and not expecting them to find out by reading CNN stories?