Then another machine screws on the tops and they shimmy further down the line, where a worker gives the tops a final twist. The peanut butter packed in drums is shipped to Portion Pac of Stone Mountain, which also packages jams and two types of cheese that are dropped to the Afghans. The meal packets are assembled at plants in Texas, South Carolina and Indiana. Back to top Bioterrorism here unlikely An Albany hospital's director of infectious diseases says Southwest Georgia isn't an attractive target, but he's preparing for the worst. The question isn't whether people with the desire to harm American citizens could launch a bioterrorism attack in the United States.
Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis.
It most commonly occurs in wild and domestic lower vertebrates, but also can occur in humans when they are exposed to infected animals or tissue from infected animals. B. anthracis spores can live in the soil for many years, and humans can become infected with anthrax by handling products from infected animals or by inhaling anthrax spores from contaminated animal products. Anthrax can also be spread by eating undercooked meat from infected animals. Symptoms vary depending on how the disease was contracted, but symptoms usually occur within seven days. Skin infection begins as a raised itchy bump that resembles an insect bite but within one to two days develops into a vesicle and then a painless ulcer, usually 1-3 cm in diameter, with a characteristic black area in the center.