Hysteria Hysteria

June 18, 2002 D. H. McKee

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Last fall, something peculiar began to happen at more than two dozen elementary and middle schools scattered across the country. Suddenly, groups of children started breaking out with itchy red rashes that seemed to fade away when the children went home — and to pop up again when they returned to school. Frustratingly for the federal, state and county health officials who were working to explain this ailment, it did not conform to any known patterns of viral or bacterial illness.

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The rash outbreaks started in Indiana on Oct. 4, the same day The Associated Press first reported that a Florida man had come down with anthrax. It was not then clear how extensive the anthrax campaign would be, or who was behind it (we still don’t know), or where it might turn up next. Throughout the fall, towns across the country were dealing with false alarms, white-powder hoaxes, sudden evacuations of buildings, runs on Cipro. By January, more than 1,200 specimens of suspected anthrax, none of which tested positive, had been sent to the Indiana State Department of Health alone.

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