From: "Robert Comer" 

There was a couple of cases here in the US of some wool workers here in the
US getting Anthrax poisoning after going into a part of a wool processing
plant that had been sealed for years...

- Bob Comer


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> Bio weapons don't travel all that far unless the wielder is suicidal &
wants
> to kill all his own people as well. e.g. Anthrax never went from the
letters
> into the general population. i.e. unless you actually breathed the
> powder...no anthrax.
>
> Heck there was a Scottish island which was doused with anthrax & which
they
> left for years before doing a clean up (& they did clean it up) & no one
got
> infected.
>
> Adam
> "Geo."  wrote in message
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> > "Bill Lucy"  wrote in message
> > news:MPG.18756d24d7f0439d98b1d6{at}news.barkto.com...
> >
> > > > How much of the building it contaminated doesn't really
matter, they
> > shut
> > > > down the whole building didn't they? Isn't that just as good?
> > >
> > > If it's for strategic reasons, I would think not.
> >
> > With anthrax type weapons, fear is a big part of it. Just a little bit
of
> > fear of the unknown and it's really hard to get people to work in the
> > environment without taking massive precautions. Heck, it's the basis of
> > terrorism.
> >
> >
> > > Think of it this way -- a ground-exploded uranium bomb would
contaminate
> a
> > very
> > > small portion of the Iraqi oil fields. Let's say 50-60 square miles.
Is
> > that an
> > > efficient use of the technology?
> >
> > Sounds way more efficient than wiring each well up with explosives.
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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