MANNY GARCIA and DAVID KIDWELL Miami Herald
| ''It is an isolated case and it is not contagious,'' U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said at a White House briefing. ''There is no terrorism.'' |
Robert Stevens, a 63-year-old Palm Beach County man has been hospitalized in critical condition in Lantana with anthrax, state health officials confirmed. State of Florida and federal investigators from the Centers for Disease Control are at the Columbia JFK Medical Center are investigating, federal sources said. ''It is an isolated case and it is not contagious,'' U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said at a White House briefing. ''There is no terrorism.'' Thompson said he was aware of two reported cases of anthrax -- one in Florida in 1974, the other within the last year in Texas -- in the United States, but admitted it was ''entirely possible'' there have been undocumented cases. |