Deadly bio-terror agent detected in US capital during anti-war march

Kevin Spidel

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Mon Oct-03-05 12:39 AM
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Deadly bio-terror agent detected in US capital during anti-war march

Don't know if this made main stream press. Maybe you want to pass it along?

Deadly bacteria detected in US capital during anti-war march - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051002/hl_afp/ushealthtularemia_051002140127

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Kevin Spidel

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Mon Oct-03-05 12:50 AM
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1. kinda freaked me out n/t

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I_Make_Mistakes

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Mon Oct-03-05 01:00 AM
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3. It is another tick borne disease (I have Lyme) and I think it is called

rabbit fever. I do know that is very dangerous, if I was there I would get tested. I have been tested for all tick borne diseases, I think it was 11 tubes in all at 1 time, almost passed out.

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Lilyhoney

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Mon Oct-03-05 12:59 AM
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2. Thank you for the link. nt

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Dunvegan

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Mon Oct-03-05 01:08 AM
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4. We've been talking about tularemia and DC for a few days at DU...

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file83

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Mon Oct-03-05 01:12 AM
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5. Yes, I saw this story in a different article and check this out...

...a reader over at BradBlog is showing some of the symptoms of exposure to that bacteria.

This was the first article I saw on it. Is it much ado about nothing? Who knows, but that's not the point.

If this had been a major bioattack why weren't the citizens notified? Why weren't people told about this sooner?

"The Working Group on Civilian Biodefense considers F tularensis to be a dangerous potential biological weapon because of its extreme infectivity, ease of dissemination, and substantial capacity to cause illness and death."
(source: JAMA)

If it was a bioattack, we will soon find out:

"Release in a densely populated area would be expected to result in an abrupt onset of large numbers of cases of acute, nonspecific febrile illness beginning 3 to 5 days later (incubation range, 1-14 days), with pleuropneumonitis developing in a significant proportion of cases during the ensuing days and weeks."
(source: JAMA)

Nasty stuff. But if it was "natural" it's strange that it would show up in DC:

"In the United States, human cases have been reported from every state except Hawaii; however, most cases occur in south-central and western states (especially Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Montana)."
(source: JAMA)

Whatever happened, it was unusual, suspicious, and potentially very dangerous. Yet, the public wasn't notified until more than a week after!?

Why doesn't this surprise me?

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Melodybe

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Mon Oct-03-05 01:14 AM
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6. Laura Bush was less than a mile away.

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file83

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Mon Oct-03-05 01:21 AM
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7. How many times has Laura been in danger and Georgy not???

Weird.:shrug:

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Melodybe

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Mon Oct-03-05 01:22 AM
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8. If someone on DU drops dead, we'll know

til then I'm not freaking out.

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undergroundpanther

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Mon Oct-03-05 02:34 AM
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9. It was reported on my local TV news in Baltimore

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undergroundpanther

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Mon Oct-03-05 02:35 AM
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10. Oh,

and why is CDC locking up the bird flu information for? Interesting timing...to say the least.

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bowens43

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Mon Oct-03-05 04:20 AM
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11. My bet is that it didn't happen.

I think that it was just disinformation to discourage future protesters.

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