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From: HANK@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL (Hank Nussbacher)
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Subject: Re: Anthrax
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From:         Hank Nussbacher <HANK@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL>
|2) attributes like disperal, persistence, etc. are unknown.  All this
|stuff is in libraries, and you used to be able to write the Pentagon
|and they would mail you public domain info.

Or send you a sample copy.

|Problems as a weapon: Can be treated if detected in time (depending
|on form).  A vaccine exists (but crude), Iraq probably only has limited
|quantities.  Possible contamination if facilities attacked, unknown.

You can thank the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) in
Atlanta for supplying their Iraqi counterparts with anthrax in 1985.
Iraq did not have any anthrax spores up till then.

|--e. nobuo miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov

Hank Nussbacher
Israel