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Anthrax: Hype Or Harm' Anthrax: Hype or Harm' As anthrax contamination spreads from Florida to New York and then to Nevada, the country is being pushed to the brink of hysteria. Many people believe that a terrorist organization is behind the anthrax contaminations. However is all the “hype” surrounding anthrax necessary' Although there has been one fatality due to the anthrax virus, the other cases of anthrax had been treated and quickly and efficiently. Anthrax a very difficult virus to manipulate in weapon form even superpowers such as the United States and Russia has had difficulties developing anthrax. In the late nineteen eighties, Russia accidentally released a deadly strain of anthrax into a city of a million inhabitants, and only 66 of them died. Seeing that Russia had a difficult time developing anthrax, it would be virtually impossible for a terrorist cell to develop it. Therefore anthrax takes expertise, time, and money, none of which a terrorist group has time to develop such a deadly virus. The expertise it takes to develop a virus such as anthrax is very scarce. The “hype” surrounding the spread of anthrax is very premature. There are only a few qualified individuals who are trained to anthrax, terrorist, very, strain, develop, been, virus, time, hype, weapons, money, masses, group, effective, russia, kill, harm, biological, therefore, organization, impossible, handle, expertise, developing, deadly, created, cases, although, years, weapon, virtually, united, treated, takes, surrounding