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| Anthrax |
| Feds suspect foul play in anthrax death |
| 2001-10-09 |
Federal officials now suspect foul play in the case of Bob Stevens, a 63-year-old Florida man who died over the weekend of an anthrax infection. Ernesto Blanco, a Stevens colleague at supermarket-tabloid publisher American Media, has now tested positive for anthrax infection. Stevens was photo editor of the Sun tabloid; Blanco works in the mailroom. Only 18 cases of anthrax were reported nationwide in the 20th century, the most recent in 1976 in California. The company's offices are in Lantana, Fla., and the Associated Press notes that "Stevens lived about a mile from an airstrip where flight school owner Marian Smith said hijacker Mohamed Atta rented planes. Several other hijackers also visited a crop-dusting business in Belle Glade, 40 miles from Stevens' home in Lantana." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |