UK anthrax victim infected by drum skin

Should I be worried?

My wife has recently purchased a new Djembe and all in the family have had fun bashing away at the thing for a while. The group she plays with have also bought a new batch of various drums which do originate from the African subcontinent.

so where's the IT angle?

or the Paris Hilton angle, for that matter?

ah. bongoes. I take it back

@Del Merritt

I'm guessing that's the only reason you watched?

We still get it on Dutch television, and... and... they put it after House for crying out loud.

I set the recorder so it doesn't record it any more, that's how bad Medical Investigation is.

Thank god I play snare drum though!

African subcontinent?

Africa is a continent, not a sub-continent. Perhaps "sub-Saharan Africa" was the intention?

Anyway, personally I wouldn't loose too much sleep over it, it's hardly an epidemic!

PS The vulture in the icon has just died of anthrax

@ first AC

I think it's worse than that-If Chuck has all the awesomeness, then his brother would be the opposite. Everything weakly and sucky must be his livelyhood.

Chuck Norris' brother would then be like South Park's "Kenny"....

Their called percussionists

not hippies you tin eared twat, how old are you I happen to know we killed all the real hippies and anyone that called us hippies back in the early eighties fucking stupid hippy.

-An OLD PUNK

@Neil Gerstenberg et al

I was in that drumming class (I figured it would be a safe change from flying or sailing or climbing - how wrong was I) and drummed beside the chap that sadly died. The comprehensive report on the BBC page explains that they only found anthrax spores in the hall at Smailholm and not in this home where he did his hobby of taxidermy. His home was very closely examined as that was the mian hypothesis last year. When they found nothing they eventually examined the hall where the classes took place where they found spores.

As an aside although you could walk past the hall and drive up to it, there was an air exclusion zone of 3 nautical miles so we couldn't fly over it under 3,000 feet... They also held the 'are you worried about Anthrax?' meeting in the village hall where they subsequently found the spores.

I wonder if any terrorist organisation would be interested in my drum...

There is also some IT in this story as one of the main problems highlighted in the report is the failing of IT in delays of database capture.

Mike

Rolf was first

"...tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred.

...tan me hide when I'm dead.

So we tanned his hide when he died, Clive.

And that's him hanging on the shed!