British authorities today warned drug users that heroin in London was highly likely to be contaminated with anthrax, after a first confirmed case there and following nine deaths in Scotland.
"While public health investigations are ongoing, it must be assumed that all heroin in London carries the risk of anthrax contamination," said Dr. Brian McCloskey, who is director of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in London.
"Heroin users are advised to cease taking heroin by any route, if at all possible, and to seek help from their local drug treatment services."
McCloskey added that the risk to the general population was "negligible."
Anthrax has been found in 19 heroin users in Scotland since December and nine of those people died, six of them in the Glasgow area, officials said.
Source: http://rawstory.com/2010/02/british-warn-drug-users-anthraxlaced-heroin/ 4a. The afghan war will become increasingly unpopular. Dog fighting in Kabul will become a major issue as well as
anthrax tainted heroin coming from the afghan poppy fields. protests and conscientious objectors will raise the awareness of the afghan reality. The mainstream will have to wake up and report the truth about how ineffective a military surge in Afghanistan really is.
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