At 07:55 PM 1/15/2003 -0600 Robert Seeberger wrote:
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61287-2003Jan15.html
>
>The FBI said Wednesday that vials containing samples of lethal bubonic
>plague reported missing from Texas Tech University had been located.
>"We have accounted for all those missing vials and we have determined that
>there is no danger to public safety whatsoever," FBI Agent Lupe Gonzalez
>said.
Maybe someone here can correct me on this, but wasn't yesterday afternoon's
hysteria a bit overdone?
After all, bubonic plague *already exists in the wild* throughout much of
the American West. In a modern health environment, it simply isn't all
that deadly.
JDG
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