Anthrax Threat to America

The Anthrax Threat to America It is August 1 at the A.I.M. building in Palm Beach, Florida. 1000 people are in line to receive protective antibiotics, to be tested for exposure to anthrax - all this after a man, who would later die, was admitted to a local hospital for possible anthrax exposure. Anthrax is a disease caused by bacteria found in livestock. A breakout in Iraq once killed a million sheep. Today at least 17 …showed first 75 words of 690 total…

…showed last 75 words of 690 total…www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/duseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm . 11/5/2001. Begley , Sharon “Protecting America The Top 10 Priorities” NEWSWEEK 5 November 2001 26-32. “Biological, chemical weapons: Arm yourself with information.” 18 October 2001. http://www.mayoclinic.com/invok.cfm?id=MH0027 11/6/2001. Cole, Leonard A. The Eleventh Plague. New York: W.H. Freeman And company, 1996. “Facts About Anthrax” http://www.cdc.gov/DocumentsApp/factsheet/anthrax/about.asp 11/6/01 Inglesby, Thomas V. et al. “Anthrax as a Biological Weapon” June,12 1998 http://jama.ama-assn.org