From: button@sasquatch.com (Marsha Stewart)
Subject: [illusions] Anthrax-Contaminated Heroin
Date: 21 May 2000 20:45:59 -0400
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> May 18 2000 
> Times of London
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> Anthrax clue to heroin deaths
> BY HELEN RUMBELOW, MEDICAL REPORTER
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> ANTHRAX, a virulent disease used as a biological weapon, could be 
> responsible for a spate of deaths among heroin addicts in Scotland, it 
> was disclosed yesterday. 
> Ten heroin users in Glasgow and one in Aberdeen have died of a 
> mysterious illness in the past three weeks, which led scientists, who 
> had heard of a similar death in Oslo, to send the victims' blood samples 
> to Porton Down, the biological defence laboratory. 
> Two of the five tested so far have shown low levels of antibodies to 
> anthrax, suggesting that the addicts were exposed to the disease through 
> a contaminated heroin supply. 
> Although the results are not conclusive, experts are carrying out tests 
> on the others who died and on nine more heroin addicts who have come 
> down with the illness. One survivor still has the black scab that is 
> typical of localised anthrax infection. 
> David Goldberg, deputy director of the Scottish Centre for Infection and 
> Environmental Health in Glasgow, said that tests were also being made 
> for anthrax spores on heroin batches seized by police in the city. 
> Meanwhile users were being advised to smoke the drug rather than inject 
> it, and especially not to inject into the muscle. 
> He believes that the weak results in the anthrax test may be because all 
> the victims were treated with antibiotics before their samples were 
> taken.

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