Call for calm as anthrax is back
Kerry Burke, David Saltonstall and Treacy Connor
New York Daily News
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A Manhattan dance troupe leader was infected with anthrax after inhaling spores from raw animal skins he brought to the city from Africa to make drums, officials revealed yesterday.
Authorities went to extraordinary lengths to reassure New Yorkers that Vado Diomande's frightening illness was not a replay of the 2001 anthrax terror attacks that sowed fear across the nation.
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See Also:
'Animal link' in US anthrax case
3 more may have been exposed to anthrax
Bioterrorism ruled out
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Even though the city said there was no public health crisis, the emergency response was dramatic:
a live City Hall news conference, a briefing from the feds and surreal scenes of police and firefighters in biohazard suits scouring Diomande's home and workplace.
Diomande, 44, an Ivory Coast immigrant who lives in the West Village and stores his equipment in Brooklyn, was in fair condition at a hospital in Pennsylvania. At first, doctors were mystified by the well-built man's sudden lung crisis, but by Monday, blood tests had pointed to a dreaded diagnosis: inhalation anthrax.
feb 24, 2006
Kerry Burke, David Saltonstall and Treacy Connor
New York Daily News
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A Manhattan dance troupe leader was infected with anthrax after inhaling spores from raw animal skins he brought to the city from Africa to make drums, officials revealed yesterday.
Authorities went to extraordinary lengths to reassure New Yorkers that Vado Diomande's frightening illness was not a replay of the 2001 anthrax terror attacks that sowed fear across the nation.
________________
See Also:
'Animal link' in US anthrax case
3 more may have been exposed to anthrax
Bioterrorism ruled out
________________
Even though the city said there was no public health crisis, the emergency response was dramatic:
a live City Hall news conference, a briefing from the feds and surreal scenes of police and firefighters in biohazard suits scouring Diomande's home and workplace.
Diomande, 44, an Ivory Coast immigrant who lives in the West Village and stores his equipment in Brooklyn, was in fair condition at a hospital in Pennsylvania. At first, doctors were mystified by the well-built man's sudden lung crisis, but by Monday, blood tests had pointed to a dreaded diagnosis: inhalation anthrax.
feb 24, 2006
