Stardate 20011008.0653 (On Screen): A second man has been found who was exposed in Florida to anthrax. He is a coworker of the man who died, and they're both employed by a large publisher. It may well be that he got exposed by being around the first man; but it's difficult to say. Health authorities will be chasing this down until they have clearly identified the source; in the mean time, the publisher has shut down and all its employees are being advised to seek profilactic adminstration of antibiotics just in case they, too, have been exposed. I seriously doubt that this is the result of any kind of terrorist activity. If they wanted to attack a publisher, why would they take on the one which publishes
The Sun, The Globe, and
The National Enquirer? It's not as if the US would be harmed by losing access to their thorough coverage of Elvis and Bigfoot stories.
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