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(under construction) Anthrax took-off as a media-hype story when tabloid photographer Bob Stevens from Florida was the first confirmed person murdered by it.
Three doctors from JFK Memorial Hospital diagnosed him, miraculously, actually, within 24 hours. First Anthrax case in 30 years - but these dudes zeroed in on it with amazing alacrity - made the connection to Islamic bio-terrorism from the get-go - that then fed the resultant media-frenzy.
Of this heroic trio, Wolf and Abrams were subsequently convicted, of running, separate, Oxycontin drug-pushing dispensaries - while the third, Larry Bush, aka Doctor Bug, rode his Celebrity Scientist fame all the way to Covid (ended up heading AZ's - bungling - push into the US).
From there it was used as unquestionable justification to mega-fund bio-security - invade Iraq -