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A London-based drum-maker who apparently contracted anthrax from imported animal skins is in a "serious but stable" condition in Hackney's Homerton Hospital, the Hackney Gazette reports. The unnamed victim, said to be Spanish by the Gazette, was diagnosed with the disease on Saturday, and samples were sent to the Porton Down …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    One rule for them?

    Great isn't it? It seems the entire world has banned most of our meat exports at some time or another, but we manage to import this stuff with no controls.

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Can we now look forward to

    banning of use and purchase of drums as they may be a terrorist threat ;)

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Uh...

    Man buys drums - starts listening to Anthrax... what?

  4. Chris Simmons
    Pirate

    Nothing more to say

    http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-4429/episodes/113758/?show_recap=1

    The art of RL replicating TV is quite stunning.

  5. Tim Hale
    Go

    Fiction -> Fact

    It's just like that episode of Medical Investigation, Alienation, where Dr Connor visualised the spore bouncing up from the drum skins and floating through the market place.

  6. Steen Hive
    Coat

    Just a ploy

    To drum up support for draconian anti-trrrrrst legislation.

  7. JK
    Paris Hilton

    Is there something I should know?

    People stare and cross the road from me

    And jungle drums they all clear the way for me

    Can you read my mind can you see in the snow?

    Paris - because if she was 20 years older, she would have been a duranie

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Uh hu...

    Man drums while listening to Anthrax, eats squirrel as bat not available.

  9. Lloyd
    Thumb Up

    Hmmm

    Are they sure it was actually due to import and not a fecked off biologist next door neighbor? Did they check his joss sticks for cyanide gas?

  10. Eddie Edwards
    Joke

    ObAnthrax

    So it's good that this guy is still Among The Living but I really hope that he hasn't been Spreading The Disease. I bet he's feeling the Persistence of Time in hospital though. The stuff the doctors are telling him must seem like the Sound of White Noise.

    /me: That's all the Anthrax albums I've got, sorry.

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Unhappy

    It appears he has died

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7705328.stm

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