| Monday
October 8, 2001
From Robert Rocansky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61251-2001Oct2.html
Sudan's Offer to Arrest Militant Fell Through After
Saudis Said No
By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 3, 2001; Page A01
The government of Sudan, employing a back channel
direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in
the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi
custody,
Which is an interesting story I have heard
before. It seems there was a certain lack of either interest or ingenuity
in the White House.
And something cheerful from Stephen St. Onge
From: Stephen M. St. Onge saintonge@hotmail.com
Subject:News and Views
Dear Jerry:
Some science news of possible interest. The first
may point to a solution for long term space travel, the second casts real
doubt on global warming, the last of which goes in the "SF in real
life?" file:
'GOOD VIBRATIONS' MAY PREVENT BONE LOSS State
University of New York at Stony Brook researchers suggest bones that are
slightly shaken may help astronauts stay healthier during long space
flights, and could be used to help people suffering from bone loss on
Earth, NASA reports. Scientists uncovered evidence that barely perceptible
vibrations may stimulate bone growth, which would benefit astronauts on
extended space missions, the elderly on the ground, and other people
immobilized by paralysis or bed rest. The researchers discovered that
normally active animals exposed to 10 minutes per day of low-magnitude
(.25 g), high frequency (90 Hz) vibrations experienced increased bone
formation when compared to the control group. In addition, when animals,
prevented from regular, weight-bearing activity, were exposed to 10
minutes of vibrations per day, bone formation remained at near-normal
levels. While preliminary results are encouraging, "a full clinical
study must be completed to demonstrate the effectiveness." While
researchers do not fully understand the physiological mechanism at work,
the vibrations appear to fool the bones into thinking they are working
hard.
ICELANDIC WEATHER HELPS IN ARCTIC PUZZLE Largely
natural "ups and downs" in a weather system centered near
Iceland have contributed to regional variations and an overall decrease in
Arctic sea ice cover over the last twenty years. As this semi-permanent
low-pressure system intensifies and weakens, it affects the amount of air
(generally warm) being brought into the Arctic to the east of the low and
the amount of air (generally cold) being swept out of the Arctic to the
west. These changes in turn affect the amount of ice cover in the
respective regions, adding to the effects of climate warming. The
"Icelandic Low" is a key to bringing a greater or lesser amount
of warm air into the Arctic depending on the intensity of the system, and
is part of a larger weather pattern called the North Atlantic Oscillation
(NAO). The overall decrease in sea ice cover has generated questions about
whether Arctic sea ice is being influenced by global warming. Claire L.
Parkinson of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. urges
caution in drawing conclusions for decreases in Arctic ice. "The
trend of decreasing ice extent showed some signs of reversing in the
1990s," she writes in Polar Geography. "Whether the ice cover as
a whole will continue to exhibit the decreases that it experienced over
the 1979 to 1999 period might depend on the strength and phase of the NAO,
as well as on long-term trends in the climate system."
SPINACH PROTEIN IMPLANT MAY HELP RESTORE SIGHT A
team of scientists hopes to improve the sight of blind people by
implanting proteins from spinach leaves into their eyes, New Scientist
reports. When light falls on the proteins, it creates an electrical
voltage, which could stimulate healthy regions of the retina and produce
meaningful images, according to researchers at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory in Tennessee. "The idea is to insert these proteins into
cells in the retina," says Elias Greenbaum of Oak Ridge National.
"If we can do that, we know light can make them produce voltages high
enough to stimulate the optic nerve." The spinach proteins-known as
photo-reaction centers-perform a similar task to photoreceptor cells in
the retina, Greenbaum says. These cells, which lie at the base of the
retina, send electrical pulses to the optic nerve when illuminated. These
impulses are then interpreted as images by the brain. "In two of the
major diseases that cause blindness, you lose the photoreceptor
cells," says Greenbaum. He plans to embed the photo-reaction centers
into tiny fatty spheres called liposomes and inject these into the
membranes of retinal cells, but he warns it will be some time before they
try the technique in animals or humans.
And given your latest struggles with technology,
some thoughts on computers:
At COMDEX, Bill Gates reportedly compared the
computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept
up with the technology like the computer industry has, we would all be
driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.
In response to Bill's comments, General Motors
should have issued a press release stating: "If GM had developed
technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following
characteristics:
1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash
twice a day.
2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road,
you would have to buy a new car.
3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway
for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close
all of the car windows, shut it off, restart it, and reopen the windows
before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left
turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which
case you would have to reinstall the engine.
5. Only one person at a time could use the car
unless you bought "CarNT," but then you would have to buy more
seats
6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by
the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive- but
would only run on five percent of the roads.
7. The oil, water temperature, and alternator
warning lights would all be replaced by a single "General Protection
Fault" warning light.
8. New seats would force everyone to have the same
sized butt.
9. The airbag system would ask "are you
SURE?" before deploying.
10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car
would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously
lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio
antenna.
11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase
a deluxe set of Rand McNally Road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though
they neither need nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would
immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more.
Moreover, GM would become a target for investigation by the Justice Dept.
12. Every time GM introduced a new car, car buyers
would have to learn to drive all over again because none of the controls
would operate in the same manner as the old car.
13. You'd have to press the "Start" button
to turn the engine off.
Best, Stephen
Thanks...
Dr. Pournelle:
Re Debka:
I'm impressed by this outfit, but a little
suspicious. The impressive part is the vast amount of secret information
that this web site has access to that seems to have eluded the entire
intelligence force of the Free World. Who told these people--referred to
as Debka's "experts on terrorism"--how many moles there were in
the U.S. and what they were doing?
The suspicious part is probably just cynicism on my
part, but it seems like one motivation of this site is to generate a level
of fear and panic that would encourage the United States to rain
thermonuclear death on all the enemies of Israel.
I still remember how Saddam Hussein's elite troops
were pumped up in the media before Desert Storm. Before we actually
attacked, you would have thought that battalions of Dorsai and Motie
Warriors were waiting for us.
I am willing to wait and see what happens. My
prediction: there will be further terrorist attacks, but they will be of
the sort we have seen before. Truck bombs in front of buildings. Bombs on
airplanes. That sort of thing. Bad, but not nation-wrecking.
There are people trying to frighten us, for a number
of different reasons. We have to keep our heads.
Tom Brosz
I retain my suspicions as well. As you say they
seem to know things that I am not sure anyone can know.
But it's a source: some of their stuff checks
out. Some does not.
As to what is next, I expect some frenzy attacks
from odd people: "weatherman" types, and some unaffiliated
jihadists resident in the US. It isn't over. The organized attacks will
taper out as it gets harder to do.
The great thing is to keep your nerve.
Then there is this sort of thing. This is a
forwarded message. UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS before you read it and understand
it is internally inconsistent. It's here to show what you will be seeing
shortly from certain elements:
INFORMATION OVERVIEW ON SEPT 11 ATTACKS
PLEASE NETWORK
These are EXTRACTS only - follow links to
complete articles and statements.
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"U.S. GOVERNMENT PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF
EMERGENCY". by Sherman H. Skolnick 09/11/01. 'AMERICA'S REICHSTAG
FIRE'
Extract: < The most massive so-called
"terrorist" attacks on U.S. soil since the Oklahoma City
bombings of 1995, were known, a week ahead of time, by the American CIA.
Among the foreign intelligence agencies who penetrated the plots were the
French CIA and Israel's The Mossad, units of both often working with one
another. Foreign intelligence sources confirm the validity of this story.
And they state that they informed the U.S. secret police who absolutely
failed, neglected, and outright refused to take action as to known prior
specifics of which the top-level of the CIA were informed in advance. >
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/pkem.html
http://www.world-action.co.uk/reichstag.html
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TWIN W.T.C. TOWERS DID NOT FALL FIRST!! Rumor
Mill News Read Only Forum
Extract: < The video clip only lasted a
few seconds and evidently it was only played once. Some of you saw it and
I did, too. It distinctly and irrefutably showed a major explosion to the
left of the twin WTC towers. A thick, dense cloud of debris billowing up
into the air fifty stories high while the towers to the right are on fire,
but still standing. >
http://www.rumormillnews.net/cgi-bin/config.pl?read=11721
http://www.world-action.co.uk/towers.html
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AIR FORCE INTEL SOURCE: "PRO-BUSH
GOVERNMENT FACTIONS ABSOLUTELY BEHIND TUESDAY'S MASS DEVASTATION".
Extract: < INTERVIEWER: Is it true that
our government knew what was going to happen? INTEL SOURCE: You could say
that. Actually there are certain (pause) groups in our government who
pretty much ran the whole show. INTERVIEWER: Are you saying that there was
cooperation and collaboration between elements of our government and the
perpetrators? INTEL SOURCE: NO. WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT THESE GROUPS
(WITHIN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - TV) WERE THE PERPETRATORS OF THE ACTION,
RIGHT DOWN THE LINE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. >
http://www.konformist.com/911/newshawk2.htm
http://www.world-action.co.uk/intel.html
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EXPLOSIVES PLANTED IN TOWERS, NEW MEXICO TECH
EXPERT SAYS
Extract: < ROMERO SAID THAT IF HIS
SCENARIO IS CORRECT, THE DIVERSIONARY ATTACK WOULD HAVE BEEN THE COLLISION
OF THE PLANES INTO THE TOWERS >
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/albu.htm
http://www.world-action.co.uk/explosives.html
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INTERVIEW WITH HUFFMAN AVIATION CASTS DOUBT
ON OFFICIAL STORY
Extract: < Israel: But wouldn't what they
did require sophistication?
Dekkers: Yeah, they went to that
school, I have heard the name, they call it a jet center for simulator
training, there is no way - this is not my opinion. My opinion is I don't
think it is possible. I have spoken to many captains from the airlines and
they say there is no way what the planes did they could have done that.
They changed altitude. They changed speed. They changed direction. They
had to know about the equipment to do what they had to do and there is no
way that could have been done. >
http://emperors-clothes.com/interviews/dekkers.htm
http://www.world-action.co.uk/precision.html
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U.S. MILITARY SECRET TERRORIST PLANS
Extract: < "We could develop a
Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities
and even in Washington," said one document reportedly prepared by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo
Bay and blame Cuba," the document says. "Casualty lists in U.S.
newspapers would cause a helpful wave of indignation......... We could
sink a boatload of Cubans en route to Florida (real or simulated). ... We
could foster attempts on lives of Cubans in the United States, even to the
extent of wounding in instances to be widely publicized," the
document says. Another idea was to shoot down a CIA plane designed to
replicate a passenger flight and announce that Cuban forces shot it down.
>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/apfn/message/16755
http://www.world-action.co.uk/terrorist.html
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U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT SPONSORS TRAINING OF
WOULD-BE TERRORISTS by Al Martin
Extract: < "UPDATE - WORLD TRADE
CENTER BOMBING - SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: A SPECIAL STATE DEPARTMENT INTERNAL
SECURITY TEAM FROM THE POLITICAL LIABILITY CONTROL OFFICE WAS INSERTED
QUICKLY AFTER THE INCIDENT INTO THE REDSTONE ARSENAL IN HUNTSVILLE
ALABAMA. THE DEMOLITION SCHOOL HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN, AND THEY ARE SHREDDING
DOCUMENTS AS WE SPEAK. AS A MATTER OF FACT THEY HAVE MADE AN EMERGENCY
REQUEST TO THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR MORE SHREDDERS." >
http://www.almartinraw.com/column33.html
http://www.world-action.co.uk/sponsors.html
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RUSSIAN AIR FORCE CHIEF SAYS OFFICIAL 9-11
STORY IMPOSSIBLE
Extract: < “As soon as something like
that happens here, I am reported about that right away and in a minute we
are all up...... Generally it is impossible to carry out an act of terror
on the scenario which was used in the USA yesterday.” >
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/navy.htm
http://www.world-action.co.uk/russian.html
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LETTER FROM RAMALLAH - ISRAEL IS POUNDING US
EVEN AS I WRITE
Extract: < I am writing to you now to the
sound of Israel's "Defense Forces" pounding the living daylights
out of my hometown Ramallah. As the whole world is too busy paying
tributes to the victims of terror attacks in NYC and DC, Israel has had a
field day in terror attacks of their own on us here. Since the attacks in
the US, the Israelis have taken their assaults on Palestinians to new
heights. >
http://www.world-action.co.uk/ramallah.html
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ATTACK ON AMERICA - BY DR LEONARD HOROWITZ
Author of 'Death In The Air - Globalism, Terrorism and Toxic Warfare.
Extract: < DIAGNOSING THE MEDIA SPIN What
do I mean by media spin? Did you know that our government's and media's
alleged greatest nemesis, said to be responsible for most terrorist
attacks against the United States - Osama bin Laden - took his direction
and money from the CIA for at least eight years. (See story at http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp#BODY)
This also implicates, by association, multinational corporations and the
British Oligarchy's MI6. According to previous MI6 officer, Dr. John
Coleman, in his precisely detailed and documented book,
"Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300,"
the CIA is largely subordinate to British intelligence agencies,
multi-national corporations, and even the Royal family. Through the MI6
and numerous oligarchy-controlled "think tanks," Coleman
explains, America's propaganda mills --major news networks and
agencies--churn out foul fabrications that few recognize as propaganda.
>
http://www.tetrahedron.org/news/attack_on_america.html
http://www.world-action.co.uk/horowitz.html
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ANOTHER TERRORIST GROUP - WHO HAS HAD MANY
DECADES OF RAINING DESTRUCTION ONTO INNOCENT CIVILIAN POPULATIONS - AND
WHO HAD FAR MORE ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS WITHIN THE USA NECESSARY
TO COMPLETELY CARRY OUT THE INTRICATE OPERATIONS OF SEPTEMBER 11TH: THE
HIDDEN CABAL WITHIN THE US GOVERNMENT.
The people who make the huge and disastrous
mistakes in the name of 'The United States' are only few in number and are
NOT the PEOPLE of the USA, but have wheedled their conspiring way into
almost all areas of American government. They wage their own war against
the world, and the citizens of their own country. A few hundred years ago
it was overtly Britain, Spain, Germany, Holland, etc. who set about world
domination. In the 20th century the controllers of the USA, from around
1960, decided to fight their own battle for world domination, in which
everyone of us is dispensable. This is, no doubt, completely backed from
London.
Extract: < BIOLOGICAL WARFARE? TRY THE
GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United States has a long
history of experimentation, on unwitting human subjects, which goes back
to the beginning of this century. Both private firms and the military have
used unknowing human populations to test various theories. However, the
extent to which human experimentation has been a part of the U.S.
Biological Weapons programs will probably never be known. The following
examples are taken from information declassified in 1977, and from other
private source accounts. Several involve incidents which are still of
unknown origins and which cannot be fully explained. > (CUT)
DETAILS HERE OF ATROCIOUS GERM-WARFARE
TESTING ON THE PEOPLE OF THE USA PERPETRATED BY THE HIDDEN USA GOVERNMENT:
http://www.world-action.co.uk/biological.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/pages/experimentation.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~bkonop/GermIncidents2.html
IF WE LOOK BACK AT ACTUAL FACTS, THERE IS NO
GREATER TERRORIST GROUP IN THE WORLD THAN THE HIDDEN GOVERNMENT OF THE
USA.
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8,000,000 WORLD DEAD BY USA TERROR GROUP:
'SHOCKED & HORRIFIED' - By LARRY MOSQUEDA
Ph.D.
Extract: < Like all Americans, on Tuesday,
9-11, I was shocked and horrified to watch the WTC Twin Towers attacked by
hijacked planes and collapse, resulting in the deaths of perhaps up to
10,000 innocent people. I had not been that shocked and horrified since
January 16, 1991, when then President Bush attacked Baghdad, and the rest
of Iraq and began killing 200,000 people during that "war"
(slaughter). This includes the infamous "highway of death" in
the last days of the slaughter when U.S. pilots literally shot in the back
retreating Iraqi civilians and soldiers. I continue to be horrified by the
sanctions on Iraq, which have resulted in the death of over 1,000,000
Iraqis, including over 500,000 children, about whom former Secretary of
State Madeline Allbright has stated, their deaths "are worth the
cost". >
http://www.world-action.co.uk/horrified.html
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
SPRING 2001: BUSH TALKED OF TERRORISM WAR http://www.world-action.co.uk/spanish.html
WHO'S TRULY BEHIND THE ATTACK ON AMERICA http://www.konformist.com/911/jimmarrs.htm
BUSH/GLOBAL ELITE BEHIND MASSIVE,
UNPRECEDENTED 'TERRORIST' ATTACKS, ANALYSIS REVEALS http://www.konformist.com/911/newshawk1.htm
THE NEW WAR-LD ORDER (AMERICA'S NEW WAR) http://www.sauderzone.com/samizdat2.htm
'EVIDENCE' AGAINST OSAMA CALLED 'A STRING OF
CONJECTURES' http://www.rense.com/general14/evidenceagainst.htm
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STRATEGIC DECEPTION DESK: http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews43updates.html
A COMPENDIUM OF SUPPRESSED INFORMATION
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There are MANY more articles and information
revealing massive deception, lies and cover-up involved in the tragic and
outrageous events of September 11th, 2001.
PLEASE NETWORK - NOW
"Our lives begin to end the day we
become silent about things that matter" - Martin Luther King
FIGHT BACK FOR TRUTH: http://www.world-action.co.uk
I hope that was enough for you.
Dr. Pournelle:
Geez. If you were trying to gag me with all those
looney web pages on your Mail page, you succeeded. I spend a lot of time
surfing the Web, and have to work hard to avoid these places like a sprint
runner crossing a cattle yard, and you (one of my favorite sites) drop a
whole load of them on my head!
I clicked on a couple of them, but gave up almost
immediately. Even reading this stuff rots your brain.
You make an excellent point that there are crackpots
out there. I'm sure I could find as many pages that blame the Twin Tower
attack on Venusians, too. Are these people really relevant?
The ones we have to watch out for are those that
make stuff up, but CREDIBLE stuff. Debka may or may not fall into that
category. It's the plausible lie that can cause trouble. The guys you
listed are just plain nuts.
Tom Brosz
Enough for you, anyway...
Anthrax
I was looking to boil down pages and
pages of manuals and handbooks to a couple of paragraphs, but Roland has
managed it first:
Because if spores of the right diameter are inhaled
(3-5 microns), it's just about 100% fatal unless the victim is taking
antbiotics which kill the bacteria before they start breaking down tissue
and generally mucking things up. By the time you start showing symptoms,
it's too late.
The USSR did in fact produce a lot of weaponized
anthrax spores, a bunch of which got loose in 1979 and killed about 70 or
so people. No, it's not contagious, but it can be deadly even at pretty
long windborne distances (10-20 miles). The basis for the cultures is also
relatively easy to obtain.
And producing it doesn't require the level of
sophistication/delivery systems necessary for sarin, Vx, and so forth. As
to smallpox, it's a bit more difficult to get the proper ingredients.
Roland Dobbins
It is not entirely clear that the
ingredients for smallpox are as hard to get as we hoped. There are rumors
-- of course there always are rumors -- that some got out of the USSR
during the collapse.
Anthrax is easier to come by than
one might think: like tularemia and some other plagues, it is endemic in
some areas, and spores can be gathered from the wild and cultivated. Inoculation
for your own lab workers is also possible: in the USSR incident,
apparently the lab workers were all right, but people kilometers downwind,
and many animals, were infected.
According to one military manual,
once the symptoms of inhaled anthrax appear, treatment success is
"highly unlikely": in other words, you're going to die if you
have already developed it. Since it's easy to get, and apparently not that
difficult to cultivate, it is clearly a threat. But so is tularemia and so
are other agents. Anthrax, though, doesn't spread through the population
as smallpox would: it is therefore a more likely threat, but the harm from
it is less severe.
Short of wearing a mask at all times
there isn't a lot individuals can do to protect themselves.
http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Bact330/lectureanthrax
Short version: The county agent was right that it
was contagious from the ANIMALS to YOU, since you would be in contact with
skin, fur and other animal products. There is no evidence of
person-to-person transmission. The fear is anthrax SPORES which are
themselves the biowar weapon (see lecture)
Rick
FOR A LOT MORE, read on. Otherwise,
to skip to the end, click here.
Dr. Pournelle,
You can find out a lot of information about anthrax
as well as all major chemical and biological threats at http://chemdef.apgea.army.mil/textbook/contents.asp
Keven
Jerry,
>From the online merck manual--a great place to
lookup medical information.
http://www.merckhomeedition.com/home.html
Scott
Anthrax Anthrax is a disease caused by the bacterium
Bacillus anthracis, which can infect the skin, lungs, and gastrointestinal
tract.
Anthrax is a highly contagious and potentially fatal
disease. It usually spreads to people from animals, especially cows,
goats, and sheep. Dormant bacteria (spores) can live in the soil and in
animal products (such as wool) for decades. Although infection in people
is usually through the skin, it can also occur from eating contaminated
meat or inhaling spores or bacteria.
Symptoms and Diagnosis Symptoms may appear 12 hours
to 5 days after exposure to the bacteria. A skin infection begins as a
red-brown bump that enlarges, with considerable swelling at the edges. The
bump blisters and hardens, then the center breaks open and oozes a clear
fluid before forming a black scab (eschar). Lymph nodes in the affected
area may swell, and the person may feel ill, sometimes experiencing muscle
aches, headache, fever, nausea, and vomiting.
Pulmonary anthrax (woolsorter's disease) results
from inhaling the spores of the anthrax bacterium. The spores multiply in
the lymph nodes near the lung. The lymph nodes then start to break down
and bleed, spreading the infection to nearby structures in the chest.
Infected fluid builds up in the lungs and in the space between the lungs
and the chest wall. At first, the symptoms are vague and similar to those
of influenza. However, the fever worsens, and in a few days severe
breathing difficulties develop, followed by shock and coma. Infection of
the brain and its meninges (meningoencephalitis) may also occur. Even with
early treatment, this form of anthrax is almost always fatal.
Gastrointestinal anthrax is rare. The bacteria can
grow into the wall of the intestine and release a toxin that causes
extensive bleeding and tissue death. The infection can be fatal if it
spreads into the bloodstream.
Knowing that a person has had contact with animals
helps a doctor make the diagnosis. To diagnose a pulmonary infection, a
doctor may obtain a sputum sample for culture; however, the laboratory
isn't always able to identify the bacteria. Sometimes treatment is started
when anthrax is suspected but laboratory confirmation isn't yet available.
Prevention and Treatment People at high risk of
contracting anthrax—such as veterinarians, laboratory technicians, and
employees of textile mills that process animal hair—can be vaccinated.
An anthrax skin infection is treated with penicillin
injections or with oral tetracycline or erythromycin. Lung infections
require intravenous penicillin. Other antibiotics also may be given.
Corticosteroids may also be used to reduce lung inflammation. If treatment
is delayed (usually because the diagnosis isn't made promptly), death is
likely.
===
Dear Jerry,
I am a Captain in the US Army Reserve Chemical
Corps, and am trained in NBC decon/recon, and am BIDS qualified
(BIDS=Biological Integrated Detection System, the Army's only biowarfare
detection method).
I believe some of the the information you seek may
be found in the Textbook of Military Medicine:
see the Anthrax chapter (ch. 22) http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedAspects/Ch-22electrv699.pdf
and
the Medical Management of Biological Casualties
Handbook (the Blue book Link) at http://www.nbc-med.org/SiteContent/HomePage/WhatsNew/MedManual/Feb01/TheBlueBook.doc
p. 14-18.
Regarding the anthrax vaccine, the quality control
at the BioPort production plant, where the vaccine is manufactured, is
horrible. The FDA has refused to license their new plant since 1998 due to
these problems, which is why we currently have only a limited supply. See http://www.anthraxvaccine.org/
which is the website of Dr. Meryl Nass, an excellent physician who has put
tremendous work into helping people afflicted by the vaccine's side
effects and educating Congress regarding its dangers. I have read the FDA
inspection reports, which I obtained directly from the FDA via a FOIA
request (and which you can view on Nass's website, about halfway down the
page). In civilian life, I am a Ph.D. computational chemist working on
drug design and I was originally trained as an analytical chemist. I have
taught quantitative chemical analysis/good lab practices and the
deficiencies listed on the first page of one of the FDA inspections would
be enough to earn you an "F" in any quantitative
analysis/analytical chemistry course I have ever taken or taught. I
wouldn't give the current vaccine to my cat, let alone a soldier.
Hopefully, they force these incompetents to manufacture the vaccine
properly soon (although even a properly manufactured vaccine would likely
be ineffective vs. a different strain of anthrax).
Bill Egan CPT, CM, USAR
Thanks!
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