Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: La vera storia dell'Antrace: campioni scambiati - New Scientist

Sarebbe una storia buffa se non ci fossero 22 morti in Usa e un 
centinaio di migliaia in Irak piu' o meno collegati alla vicenda.
Hint: Antrax = WMD
Am.
Wednesday March 16, 03:00 PM
US anthrax scare blamed on sample mix-up
By Kelly Young and Damian Carrington
An anthrax scare involving three postal centres serving the US Pentagon 
has been blamed on a mix-up of samples. The scare has led to about 900 
people receiving antibiotics and caused the stock market to dip.
 A senior military official told reporters late on Tuesday of "quality 
control problems" at a laboratory contracted by the US Department of 
Defense. He said it appeared likely that a sample of anthrax used for 
calibration had somehow contaminated an air filter from the Pentagon 
Remote Delivery Facility, sent for routine testing on 10 March.
 Following the positive test result, a further 70 surface swabs and air 
samples were taken from the facility but none have shown any presence of 
the bacteria, the Pentagon says. The follow-up tests were being 
conducted at Fort Detrick, Maryland, and, as a precaution, hundreds of 
employees were put on a three-day dose of antibiotics.
 William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defence for health 
affairs, said that not all the test results had yet come back, but "we 
hope that with further information we'll be able to completely rule out 
any threat at all'.
 Initial speculation suggested that a PCR-based test (polymerase chain 
reaction) to detect specific segments of the anthrax genome had caused 
the alert. "That test is prone to false positives," said Sandro Cinti, 
at the University of Michigan.
 Even if anthrax really had been detected, the health threat is likely 
to have been small, because mail at the Pentagon facilities is 
irradiated to kill any microbes. However, there could have been a threat 
to postal workers who handled any contaminated mail before it arrived at 
the Pentagon, when any anthrax bacilli would still have been alive.
 The US Postal Service facility that feeds the Pentagon its mail, at V 
Street in Washington, DC, was closed after the initial alarm. "We had no 
evidence that anything was amiss at V Street," Jerry McKiernan, postal 
spokesman, told New Scientist , but as a precaution, all 209 employees 
were given doses of the antibiotic, Cipro.
 Another mail facility in Fairfax County, Virginia, closed down on 
Monday after a sorting machine shut down automatically. Fearing the 
machine had detected anthrax, the Fairfax County Health Department told 
people to wash their hands, faces, jewellery and spectacles. When they 
got home, they were asked to carefully remove their clothes and bag 
them, before taking a shower.
 The Bacillus anthracis bacterium causes the disease anthrax, but cannot 
be transmitted from person to person. In 2001, 22 people were infected 
with anthrax sent through US mail and 5 died. The person who sent the 
anthrax remains at large.

e un centinaio di migliaia in Irak piu' o meno collegati alla vicenda.
Abbiamo sentito la ca***ta del giorno :)
-Stefano

 and 5 died.
Errata Corrige: 5 morti.
Happy?
Am.

 Happy?
No.  Ora vuoi leggere l'anno in cui ci sono stati i morti e ci diresti
l'anno a cui si riferiscono gli eventi dell'articolo? :)
Cosi' vediamo se e' "la vera storia dell'antrace" o meno :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
La vera storia dell'antrace e' che e' indimostrabile che c'entrasse con 
Osama. E che a distanza di quattro anni si confondono ancora su un falso 
positivo.
Come al solito vedi l'albero ma non la foresta.
Am.

Come al solito vedi l'albero ma non la foresta.
...disse il bue all'asino... :)
Cmq non hai risposto alla mia domanda, come mai? :)   Problemi con la
lingua inglese? :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Sicuramente meno di te. Vuoi che rimandi la scheda?
Ed ora torna nel canile, e non abbaiare invano, grazie.
Am.

Ed ora torna nel canile, e non abbaiare invano, grazie.
...disse il cane... :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Bau! Bau! Fido...
Non sniffarti l'antrace!
Am.

Bau! Bau!
C.V.D. :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 wrote:

Anche HiHO e Muhhh!
(mi mettevo al tuo posto, eh?)
Il genere e': la Bella Fattoria...
Am.

 (mi mettevo al tuo posto, eh?)
Certo... Certo... :)
*Pat Pat*
:)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Giusto, spolverami il cappottino. Grazie.
Am.

Giusto, spolverami il cappottino. Grazie.
Il cappottino per il cane nessuno te lo ha comprato :)  Ti tocca
passeggiare al freddo :)
*LOL*
-Stefano

 lingua inglese? :)
Di questo tipo? "[T]he shit that was wrote from ams67"
(
400C1EF4...@people.it
). Uh?
Namib

 -Stefano
Beato te che c'hai ancora il bavero e i pannoloni.
Mi raccomando fatteli vambiare ogni tanto...
Am.

 Beato te che c'hai ancora il bavero e i pannoloni.
...disse il bue all'asino... :)
*LOL*
-Stefano