The thing that makes Anthrax a exquisite biological weapon isn’t because it kills at a high frequency, it isn’t because it is communicable like Covid – you get that from your neighbour – it is because it has a spore; the spore form can exist for decades. The Anthrax Attacks: In the Shadow of 9/11, Paul Keim, anthrax scientist, Netflix 2022
It has to kill in order to survive. It has to kill to complete its life cycle. ibid.
Anthrax would not be a good death. You’d spike a high fever, you’d feel terrible, then you’d crash and die. ibid.
Anthrax Here. ibid. Daily News front page
September 2006: The most expensive investigation that the FBI ever carried out. ibid. Keim
Those all trace back to a single flash … that Bruce Ivins had created for his experiments. ibid.
We more we investigated Bruce, the more things that came to light. ibid. FBI investigator
152,270. Ivins died in an apparent overdose. ibid. TV news