Re: Anthrax question

[maury <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>]

The CDC report you provided was a great chunk of good information. I do wish,

however, that more government officials would make more of a point of the

editorial changes I've indicated in brackets below. Yelling is not intended with

the caps - just a substitute for italics or bolded text.



I really got a kick out of the relevant rejoinder in Chuck Cooper's remarks as

follows:



"I asked the head of our biology department about the presence of Anthrax

spores in downtown Portland soil, he said sure, how hard do you really want

to look?"



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> The following is from the MMWR of August 17, 2001, which can be found at.

>

> http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5032a1.htm

> . . .

>

> Editorial Note:

> This report presents the first [KNOWN] case of cutaneous anthrax in the United

>

> States since 1992. In the United States, the annual [REPORTED] incidence of

> human

> anthrax declined from approximately 200 cases in the early 1900s to no human

> cases since 1992. Although most cases reported [how 'bout this?  The CDC

> writer used the crucial word here!]  in the United States have

> been cutaneous, 18 cases of inhalational anthrax were reported during the

> 20th century, most recently in 1976 (1). No cases of gastrointestinal

> anthrax have been reported in the United States.

> -- John

> John Jacobus, MS



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