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Health

The insider

By Debora Mackenzie

9 February 2002

THE anthrax attack of 2001 is over. No more powder-laced letters have turned
up in the mail since October and no new infections since November. Unless spores
are still lurking in someone’s lungs, office or mail, there will be no more
victims.

Americans must now decide how to move on from an attack that claimed
relatively few lives, but was a huge kick in the teeth for a country still
reeling after 11 September. To make matters worse, as Âé¶¹´«Ã½
goes to press, the FBI still has no culprit—or even a firm suspect, to
judge by the doubling…

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