On 16 Jan 2003 at 8:29, John D. Giorgis wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, but I wouldn't put it beyond them to have..modified it.

And it's not nasty as long as it's caught early..and the early 
symptoms are not that distincive in some people. So it's not a mass 
threat but an outbreak would likely cause a few fatalities.

Andy
Dawn Falcon

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