Anthrax and WTC, NYC

[thebestMAX]

Just something I was thinking about.

Didnt that area once have many slaughterhouses? (Late 1800s -early 1900s)

Doesnt Anthrax live in the soil and survive many years? (As a spore or bacterium)

Couldnt recent case(s) (dermal) just be due to soil being stirred up by the collapse of the WTC towers?

Just ramdom thoughts, no flames please.

 

[Modeps]

not when people are getting envelopes with powder in them.

 

[StageLeft]

Almost certainly not.

 

[datalink7]

<< Just something I was thinking about.

Didnt that area once have many slaughterhouses? (Late 1800s -early 1900s)

Doesnt Anthrax live in the soil and survive many years? (As a spore or bacterium)

Couldnt recent case(s) (demal) just be due to soil being stirred up by the collapse of the WTC towers?

Just ramdom thoughts, no flames please. >>



But the cases are in Florida, correct? I don't think the dust drifted all the way down to Florida to infect some people down there without getting anyone else on the way (if it could even drift that far).

 

[Siva]

Doesn't anthrax take a long time before symptoms become visible, meaning that the original contamination would have had to come before the WTC collapse? I don't know, I'm probably wrong, plus I thought they traced the anthrax back to a 1950s research center in IL?

 

[thebestMAX]

NO, no not envelopes. Residue of WTC collapse ashes.

Skoorb,
Are you a Microbioligist?

Not talking about Florida here either!

Good point, Siva, on the date of the strain in Fl but dont think they did so in NY case yet.


Consider the amount of deep, deep dust stirred up.

 

[ghostman]

Wouldn't that mean that rescue workers and news reporters would be in contact with the fallout first and die first?

Besides, the land that the WTC is sitting on isn't the same land that existed in the early 1900s. Tall building like the WTC needs support down to the bedrock, so they dug up tons of dirt in constructing the buildings. So much so that they made a great deal of the land west of the buildings from the dug up dirt. Where Stuyvesant High School now stands would be your supposed anthrax soil. And yes, that area is still stable.

As for having drifted toward the NBC victim (is that the one you are referring to or is there another?) uptown, the wind was blowing southward to Brooklyn.

 

[StageLeft]

Skoorb,
Are you a Microbioligist?

I have a masters in chemistry from Stanford as well as a PHD in microbiology from Berkeley and a tenure at Oxford in their bio-chemistry department.

 

[Amused]

<< Skoorb,
Are you a Microbioligist?

I have a masters in chemistry from Stanford as well as a PHD in microbiology from Berkeley and a tenure at Oxford in their bio-chemistry department. >>



D'oh!

 

[vi edit]

<< Skoorb,
Are you a Microbioligist?

I have a masters in chemistry from Stanford as well as a PHD in microbiology from Berkeley and a tenure at Oxford in their bio-chemistry department. >>



sniff...sniff...what's that I smell?

 

[ghostman]

<< << Skoorb,
Are you a Microbioligist?

I have a masters in chemistry from Stanford as well as a PHD in microbiology from Berkeley and a tenure at Oxford in their bio-chemistry department. >>



D'oh! >>



LMAO!

 

[thebestMAX]

Skoorb,
Are you a Microbioligist?

I have a masters in chemistry from Stanford as well as a PHD in microbiology from Berkeley and a tenure at Oxford in their bio-chemistry department.>>

Since you COULD be telling the truth I will not make any inane remarks except to say I wish TRP was still around to back up my puny double major degrees. You lost a lot of plausibility when you mentioned Berkeley.

This post was only meant to convey something I was thinking about and could be possible. People have written many novels with less of a plausible theory.