# Anthrax Attack Update!!!!

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-attack-update/168697
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [April 14, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-attack-update/168697 "2003-04-14T18:29:06Z")
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### Author: ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-attack-update/168697/1 "2003-04-14T18:29:06Z")

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Army Scientists say–It could have been amateurs after all.

[http://www.courttv.com/news/2003/0411/anthrax\_ap.html](http://www.courttv.com/news/2003/0411/anthrax_ap.html)

Whole new ball game.

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### Author: ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-attack-update/168697/2 "2003-04-14T19:24:57Z")

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i knew that already. I can make the freakin’ anthrax, and i just have a microbio BA. The only problem area would be getting the anthrax itself, but i can think of a few solutions off the top of my head. Hopefully whoever did this is rotting in a shack somewhere dead by his own devices.

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### Author: ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-attack-update/168697/3 "2003-04-14T19:36:12Z")

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Did anybody else enjoy the way the media practically _taught_ us how to culture and weaponize anthrax at home?

Before that 60 Minutes episode all Anthrax was to me was a goofy hair band from the eighties. Afterwards I knew how to culture it in a commercial yougurt tank and powderize it by eliminating the electrostatic charge with powdered silica. Thanks guys! I feel so much safer.