Feds look for possible criminal link to anthrax cases.
I know it was inevitable that such things might happen ... I just didn't expect "inevitable" to be "now". (And it may not actually be "now". Maybe it's just a disgruntled former employee with unusual access to weapons grade bioengineered anthrax from the former Soviet Union ... um. Yes. Well.)
At the same time ... what on earth can you do? Sterilize all mail coming in to each and every single solitary building in the country? Sterilize everything coming into post offices and package shipping outfits? (I'm sure that medical research labs would be a tad perturbed about that.) Wear gas masks with biofilters whenever you open your mail? I mean, let's face it: of all the things that The Sun and The National Enquirer might be the targets of, biological attack would be far down on the list.
(Purely as a side note: I didn't realize that all those tabloids were owned by the same company. You'd think that one label would be enough, and then some.)
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