BALTIMORE (AP) — Police in Maryland say two people have been sickened after opening a package that they received in the mail.
Frederick Police Lt. Clark Pennington says the two went to a hospital for treatment and brought the package with them, and the hospital was considered a hazmat scene.
Pennington says when the people opened the package about noon Tuesday, they began to feel burning and had difficulty breathing.
Pennington says they took the package to Frederick Memorial Hospital. Decontamination tents were set up outside the emergency room.
Hospital, spokeswoman Melissa Lambdin says by phone that operations were back to normal Tuesday afternoon, except for a small area of the emergency department. She says no hospital staff were hurt.
Pennington says preliminary tests indicate the substance was a household cleaning product.
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My first thought upon reading the headline was that perhaps the Komrade Khaos Krew had decided to reactivate Darth Cheney’s anthrax team.
We never did find out who sent that shitty anthrax through the mail after all these years, did we? At least not with any certainty. Or is my memory failing me? That whole thing was just so bizarre, especially coming right after 9/11.
No. BushCo pretty much quashed the investigation, even after is was proven beyond the shadow of a doubt that the strain of anthrax came from the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
Good Gawd…I just went to look it up on Wikipedia and its like reading a novel. I decided I didn’t have the energy to read up on it tonight to refresh my memory, but boy-oh-boy, that was one hell of a story and a long scare. I remember everyone was so paranoid about the US mail at the time…even regular nobodies like me. We even had warnings on how to treat our mail if it looked suspicious.
PS – my dad died Sept. 12, 2001 in the middle of the night from complications related to Alzheimer’s, and that whole period of time back then is one big blurry mess to me. Just one big shitstorm of sadness, anxiety and grief.