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Photo:
Seaman Maria Orcillo receives both the anthrax and smallpox vaccines simultaneously aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan.

Photo: Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Jennifer Grimes receives an anthrax vaccination from Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class David Logan aboard the multi-purpose amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7).

The Los Angeles Times has an exclusive story today suggesting that noted microbiologist Bruce Ivins had become a suspect in the 2001 anthrax murders. It further reports that Ivins has apparently committed suicide.

The FBI has let us down. By focusing on Hatfill to the exclusion of other potential suspects, and by excluding state-sponsored terror from the very beginning, they failed to conduct a proper investigation. This was a case that any rookie detective could have followed procedure and process and investigated.

FBI now widening net for anthrax killer

I think we need some of the CSI’s on TV to tackle the unsolved murders by anthrax from five years ago.

I thought they might be too optimistic. This guy is in serious doo doo.

WNBC

Diomande, 44, had been listed in stable condition at Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., just south of the New York border. But in a statement issued Friday, the hospital said the patient had “experienced increased difficulty breathing during the course of [...]

Final comment: Anthrax is not contagious. What if it had been Ebola?

UPDATE FIVE: AP via Yahoo

Authorities said Wednesday the infection appeared to be accidental — not terrorism — and did not pose a serious public health threat. Vado Diomande, 44, had traveled recently to the west coast of Africa and fell ill in Pennsylvania last [...]

The great diseases that our ancestors feared are gone. Smallpox, plague, typhus, polio, measles. Yet people still carry fear of great diseases. People fear the avian flu as much as they might the Black Death. Why? Because the public health Mafia have decided that it is the latest “disease du jour”. Because the World Health [...]