Now, it's up to the members of the UFA to overthrow the government and free the island. The anthrax concern shouldn't be as big as it is, according to Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Medical Health Officer for SaskHealth. Butler-Jones believes the concern should be low, as the odds of contracting the spore are one in 50,000,000, with the odds of dying from it six times less. There have been cases of anthrax reported, but at strategic locations such as United States Senate majority leader Tom Dashel's office in Washington, government and media areas in New York, a newspaper building in Florida and a Microsoft office in Nevada. There have not been any confirmed cases in Canada.
Anthrax is a bacteria found in the environment which has appeared in animals in the past.
It's different from other bacteria because it produces a spore that's resistent to drying so it can survive as a powder while most bacteria will die. It can only be detected in a lab, as people can't say a powder is anthrax simply from looking at it. Ninety per cent of anthrax cases are skin infections, which usually don't require antibiotics. If an unsolicited package is opened and powder falls out on their lap, they should seal the powder in a plastic bag, seal that bag into another plastic bag, throw out their clothes, wash the exposed skin with soap and water, and clean the surface where the powder was with a ten per cent bleach solution. Contact should then be made with the RCMP, and the sealed powder sent to a lab, where its validity can be determined.