# Anthrax in NYC
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 12, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073 "2001-10-12T16:13:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@dasceder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasceder)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/1 "2001-10-12T16:13:06Z")
Does anyone have any details re this? All I’ve found is the crawl on [MSNBC.com](http://MSNBC.com) (an employee @ NBC was exposed to anthrax)
tx
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### Author:  [@rundogrun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rundogrun)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/2 "2001-10-12T16:16:43Z")
> **[MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News](https://www.msnbc.com/)**
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> MSNBC breaking news and the latest news for today. Get daily news from local news reporters and world news updates with live audio & video from our team.
great…now you can’t read your mail either…
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/3 "2001-10-12T17:54:22Z")
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> NEW YORK (AP) - An NBC News employee in New York has the skin form of anthrax in a case that was detected in tests done after the network received mail containing a suspicious powder, authorities said Friday…The FBI is checking to see if there is a link to the Florida anthrax case, but ``preliminarily I do not see that,’’ Mawn said.
[sub]sarcasm hat ON[/sub]
Oh, sure, 2 different news organizations get anthrax in 2 weeks. Sure, no connection.
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This is getting really friggin scary.
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### Author:  [@Kaje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaje)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/4 "2001-10-12T18:38:35Z")
What better way to up your ratings than fake biological warfare? :eek:
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### Author:  [@tramp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tramp)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/5 "2001-10-12T18:59:10Z")
ok i am getting pretty freaked out now
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### Author:  [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/6 "2001-10-12T19:09:20Z")
Geez, don’t freak. Anthrax is _not_ passed from person to person. To get it, you have to be directly exposed to the spores.
When caught early, it’s easily treated with antibiotics, and doctors are now on the alert for it.
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### Author:  [@Pucette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pucette)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2001, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/7 "2001-10-12T20:26:03Z")
Well at the risk of becoming annoying with my linking, [here](http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/anthrax_g.htm) is a good site to look at for info about anthrax.
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2001, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/8 "2001-10-13T00:48:06Z")
Latest development: third anthrax site in Reno, Nevada in the Microsoft offices there. Source was a letter returned from Malaysia. Nothing on the web, yet, but it’s all over the networks.
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### Author:  [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2001, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/9 "2001-10-13T02:20:26Z")
Okay, here’s [some more info](http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/12/nyc.anthrax/index.html) on the second and third anthrax cases.
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-in-nyc/87073/10 "2001-10-13T04:59:25Z")
Just watched Tom Brokaw (sp?) on MSNBC.
The real scary part is this employee of his was misdiagnosed and when sent to two different labs one said she didn’t have it and the CDC lab said yes she did.
Odd that even in this day doctors and labs don’t know enuff to diagnosis properly, makes you wonder what else they missed?