{"id":61676,"date":"2015-09-02T10:42:58","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=61676"},"modified":"2015-09-02T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T14:42:58","slug":"got-anthrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61676","title":{"rendered":"Got Anthrax?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/09\/01\/pentagon-says-army-mistakenly-sent-live-anthrax-all-50-states.html\">Military.com<\/a> which reports that the feckless boobs at the Army&#8217;s Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah sent samples of live anthrax to 194 labs in all 50 states (and the ancillary protectorates and the District of Columbia);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The number of countries that received live anthrax went up from seven to nine &#8212; Japan, United Kingdom, Korea, Australia, Canada, Italy, Germany, Norway and Switzerland, according to the Pentagon&#8217;s updated accounting of the shipments through Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>There have been no deaths or serious illnesses reported from the military&#8217;s 10-year program to ship anthrax to private and military labs for testing to develop vaccines and detection devices, according to the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<p>However, at least 31 military and civilian personnel were treated with antibiotics as a precaution after a lab in Maryland discovered in May that a supposedly irradiated anthrax sample contained live spores.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Initially, when the problem was discovered in May, the Defense Department had said that it only affected 24 labs, 11 states and two countries and that was determined to be optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>You know, government has always been incompetent but in the last few years, they&#8217;ve taken that description to new highs, or lows. When our PII gets stolen by hackers, we&#8217;re told that it only affects a few of us, until we find out that it affects all of us. Across several agencies. Now this. We&#8217;re quickly becoming a third-world nation because we put our trust in a government that isn&#8217;t very trustworthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David sends us a link to Military.com which reports that the feckless boobs at the Army&#8217;s &hellip; <a title=\"Got Anthrax?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=61676\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Got Anthrax?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}