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Anthrax Cellular Entry Point Uncovered

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the vaccine-called-little-dutch-boy dept.

ScienceDaily reports that scientists have identified the cellular point of entry for anthrax spores. This discovery could go a long way towards providing treatment or preventing infection.

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  1. Common cold by Enderandrew · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Forgive my ignorance, but I thought the common cold was anything but common. It is a virus with countless strains, each fairly different.

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  2. Tidbit by LilGuy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My brother-in-law's father is a professor at ISU and worked with a fellow that kept anthrax samples for over 50 years, running diagnostics on samples once a year until 2001. Then the government came in and made him destroy them all. It's pretty ridiculous considering anthrax isn't THAT big of a threat. It is indeed deadly in a sufficient quantity, but in order to ingest the amount needed for lethality you'd just about have to cut up a line and snort it.

    Well not quite to that extent but the media did a fine job of playing the other extreme.

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  3. Re:Medical Science is getting really interesting.. by calebt3 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Where's the antivirus meds? Viruses have an annoying habit of hiding in cells where treatments can't get to them very well.
  4. 9/11 Made America Stupid by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    professor at ISU and worked with a fellow that kept anthrax samples for over 50 years, running diagnostics on samples once a year until 2001. Then the government came in and made him destroy them all. It's pretty ridiculous considering anthrax isn't THAT big of a threat.

    Face it, 9/11 made America stupid for 3 years. Even Democrats signed off on torture, we got ourselves into a non-terror-related quagmire, gave up lots of civil rights, and went nuts over things like this. People wonder why Germany citizens let Hitler run amuck, but we had a bit of it ourselves.

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