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The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, according to the magazine of Greenpeace in Germany. It says its information comes from a member of a U.S. delegation who is attending the UN biological weapons conference in Geneva.

?The U.S. delegation believe it is an inside job. … Their members also have more information than has been made public,? says Kirsten Brodde, a reporter for the magazine. ?It seems the attacker … wanted to force through an increase in the budget for U.S. research on biological weapons.? The article speculates that perhaps the terrorist wanted to cause panic rather than actually kill anyone.
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Did five people have to die because US biological weapon researchers wanted to receive more money for their work? Greenpeace magazine feels this dreadful assumption may be likely, based on statements from members of a U.S. government delegation.

During the UN bioweapons conference taking place at present in Geneva, the participants of the U.S. delegation said that a high-ranking U.S. biology weapons expert is behind the anthrax letters. Independent researchers also share this suspicion, Greenpeace magazine reported on Wednesday.
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U.S. health officials say that Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old woman from Connecticut, has died of inhalation anthrax, the deadliest form of the disease. No one can figure out how she contracted the disease, since she lived by herself in a small ranch house in Oxford, a town of less than 10,000 residents about 70 miles from New York City, with one bank and no hotel.

Lundgren?s niece, Shirley Davis, says her aunt no longer drove her car and rarely went out. ?She went to the hairdresser?s and to (church) when she was up to it. I nearly fainted when the doctors told me they suspected anthrax.?
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The government is warning websites to stop selling unproven treatments for anthrax, smallpox and bioterrorism agents. The treatments include dietary supplements such as oregano oil and zinc mineral water. The Federal Trade Commission says there?s no scientific evidence that any of these alternative treatments work.

The FTC has sent e-mail warnings to site operators, giving them a week to reply. Operators who don?t comply could be fined, banned from operating or required to refund consumers? money.
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