# 5 Days Earlier

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[<span style="font-weight: 400;">New York Times:</span>](https://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/books/chapters/the-demon-in-the-freezer.html)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> (On) Thursday, September 27th, Robert Stevens and his wife drove to Charlotte, North Carolina, to visit their daughter Casey. </span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Barry Abrams/Dr Larry M. Bush, co-authors of </span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">Index Case of Fatal Inhalation of Anthrax due to Bioterrorism</span>*<span style="font-weight: 400;">):</span>](https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa012948)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> Immediately on his arrival in North Carolina, the first symptoms developed; (including) muscle aches, nausea, and fever. The symptoms waxed and waned for the duration of the three-day trip. </span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Esquire</span>](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a1501/esq0303-mar-anthrax/)<span style="font-weight: 400;">: (T)hey hiked a trail to the bottom of Hickory Nut Falls .. Bob .. scooped a handful of water , and drank it. He told Casey, "Tastes minerally."</span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">C. A Mimms:</span>](https://images.macmillan.com/folio-assets/book-excerpts/9780805091045EX.pdf) <span style="font-weight: 400;">They (then took) a side trip to Durham to meet her boyfriend who was in school there. On the Sunday drive to Durham, flu-like symptoms of weakness, fever, and chills hit.</span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Palm Beach Post</span>](http://www.ph.ucla.edu/epi/bioter/widowwantsanswers.html)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> (interview with Maureen Stevens): </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">They thought it was flu. On the way home (to Florida) .. Stevens .. drove .. </span>[<span style="font-weight: 400;">for ten hours</span>](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a1501/esq0303-mar-anthrax/)<span style="font-weight: 400;"> .. pulling himself together long enough to make it home. They turned in early because they both felt like they were coming down with something.</span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">Esquire</span>](https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a1501/esq0303-mar-anthrax/)<span style="font-weight: 400;">: Home by 5, in bed by 8, with a temperature of 101.</span>

[<span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-10-19-0110190228-story.html</span>](https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-10-19-0110190228-story.html)<span style="font-weight: 400;"></span>