Authorities Believe Heroin Contaminated With Anthrax Circulating In Scotland - 6 Confirmed Dead

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HEALTH officials fear that a deadly anthrax outbreak could kill up to 50 heroin addicts across Scotland after the epidemic claimed its sixth victim.

The outbreak began in Glasgow but doctors now believe contaminated heroin is circulating all over Scotland. They fear the death toll could match that of a similar case among Scottish heroin addicts in 2000 that claimed 43 lives.

It was confirmed yesterday that the sixth person to die was a 49-year-old man whose body was found in Stirling city centre. He is the first fatality in the NHS Forth Valley area. There has also been a single death in Tayside, another in Lanarkshire, and four fatalities in Glasgow.

Dr Colin Ramsay, consultant epidemiologist at Health Protection Scotland, which is leading a major inquiry to establish the source of the anthrax in the heroin, said contaminated drugs now appeared to be spreading all over the country.

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http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Heroin-contaminated-with-anthrax-could.5965853.jp

[Don Caballero]

1. This may be another tactic by Al Qaeda to scare the population

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

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[hatrack]

3. Yes, because nothing brings in more opium $$$ than dead/freaked-out customers

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[bananas]

4. Why is this in the Environment/Energy forum?

I wouldn't bother asking, but the nuclear shills had some of my posts improperly moved out of here, and it kind of pissed me off.

[shawcomm]

5. My guess is contamination

from being smuggled in wool supplies.