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Sheriffs? deputies are searching Arapahoe County, Colorado, in search of a missing tanker truck capable of spraying 5,000 gallons of liquid along city streets. Deputies alerted the FBI?s Joint Terrorism Task Force about the missing tanker because of its potential for misuse by terrorists, says Arapahoe County Undersheriff Grayson Robinson. ?Although we don?t have any reason to believe this is why it was stolen, there is a potential use for this vehicle as a means of attack.?
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An outbreak of a highly contagious Ebola-style disease that causes patients to bleed to death from every orifice was confirmed yesterday on Pakistan?s frontier with Afghanistan. It?s the largest outbreak of this type of disease in history.

At least 75 people have caught the disease so far and eight have died. An isolation ward that is screened off by barbed wire has been set up in the Pakistani city of Quetta.
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Pakistan closed its airspace this morning, except for authorized flights. Islamabad has announced that any aircraft entering Pakistani airspace without permission will be shot down. Incomiong international flights have been given permission to land at Karachi airport. Karachi, Nawabshah, Rahim Yar Khan, Lahore and Islamabad airports have been kept open for domestic flights to land.

For the Balochistan Express story, click here.
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A Lantana, Florida man has been hospitalized with pulmonary anthrax, according to Florida health officials. US Secretary of Health Tommy Thompson said that there was no evidence of terrorism being involved. The last case of anthrax reported in Florida was in 1974.

Anthrax can be found in soil and is carried by livestock. The Florida victim is described as an “avid outdoorsman.”

The man had recently traveled to North Carolina, and began to experience symptoms shortly after he returned. Anthrax is a rare disease, and the pulmonary form, where the disease is inhaled, is extremely rare. Only 18 cases of pulmonary anthrax have been reported in the US in the past hundred years.
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