On Sunday, October 21, 2001, at 06:02 PM, David Honig wrote: > At 02:56 PM 10/21/01 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: >> The media hype also tends to ignore the fact that anthrax is, in the >> forms detected to date, largely treatable. Gross attempts at >> containment (expensive) are less advisable than identification and >> treatment of exposed individuals (less expensive). > > Once the person has enough symptoms to seek treatment, > I think they're toast. We'll see. Maybe all USPO > workers will be given 60 days of Cipro. If they're > the only ones to survive, the species is fucked. >
I saw the Sturgeon General explaining that "we now have better treatment methods." I thought he might have been right, inasmuch as we had heard that Victim #2, in Florida, was mending nicely from inhalation anthrax. Ah, but it now looks like #2 was not a real case of inhalational anthrax. (I don't count the half dozen subcutaneous cases, or any of the "one spore was picked up on a swab" cases.) It looks like this Maryland case is a real Case #2. If he survives, it'll mean the Sturgeon General was right to say we now can handle anthrax. But I expect he's a goner. --Tim May "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -- Nietzsche
