Anthrax-laced heroin killing users in Europe

So many comments come to mind.  They’re worried about saving iv drug users’ lives instead of, oh – I don’t know – working to ease the pain of those folks who are suffering who did NOT put themselves in harm’s way in the first place.

They’re using illegal drugs for non-medically-necessary reasons.  Many of them steal or injure other people to get the money to buy their drugs.

And you want to save them?

Social Darwinism, at its’ finest.

As for the news article, this snippet by Rachel Heathcock from the London branch of the Health Protection Agency jumped out at me:

“It is extremely rare for anthrax to be spread from person to person,” she said in a statement.

It was followed shortly by this snippet:

Anthrax is an acute infectious disease caused by spores of bacillus anthracis bacteria.

What part of “infectious disease” is difficult to understand?

~watergirl~