Tularemia on the Mall

Hey, Salon has a fairly substantial story up questioning what happened last month when sensors around Washington detected airborne tularemia bacteria during the antiwar march on the Mall last month.

Testimony from various experts suggests that there's no way it was a natural occurrence, as the government is claiming. The writer also points out that the same line was put out in the early days of the anthrax scare.

Frankly, the article raises more questions than it answers. If this bacterium was detected, shouldn't there be a process in place to test it and identify the strain and its origins, as was eventually done with the anthrax? Oh yeah ... forgot ... we're dealing with total freaking incompetents.

They interview various people reporting symptoms similar to what we heard about here. Worth reading, anyhow.