[iwar] The US media now asserts that the Anthrax in FLA was engineered - and more...

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-10-09 18:19:40


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Subject: [iwar] The US media now asserts that the Anthrax in FLA was engineered - and more...
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According to several US news channels the Florida Anthrax cases are from
engineered strains of Anthrax - but there's a lot more.  They also
assert that the CDC did not respond quickly to the Anthrax, that they
misassociated it with natural strains, that they kept telling people
that everything was OK and that there was no danger even though it was
not true, and that they are still downplaying the incident.  Add to this
that the total available amount of appropriate antibiotic in the county
was inadequate and you have a recepie for disaster.

As an aside, the claims that the response process whereby you inoculate
in the radius of an incident is effective is highly questionable in the
case of things with delayed symptoms and long distance travel, and add
to this the fact that the total response capability is fairly limited,
and you have the potential for multiple distributed attacks overwhelming
the total capacity.  The government response seems to be along the lines
of keeping people quelled and pacified.

FC
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