{"id":730,"date":"2006-02-22T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/terrorists_arent_drummers_are_they.html"},"modified":"2006-02-22T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T00:04:06","slug":"terrorists_aren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/terrorists_aren.html","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists Aren&#8217;t Drummers, Are They?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A West Village man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2006-02-22-anthrax-nyc_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA\">has been hospitalized for a case of &#8220;accidental,&#8221; &#8220;naturally occurring&#8221; anthrax<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A New York City man has been hospitalized with a case of anthrax that a federal law enforcement official said may have been contracted from animal skins during a visit to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The infection appeared to be accidental, and authorities did not believe it was related to terrorism, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The man traveled recently to the west coast of Africa and became ill shortly after his return, said a federal law enforcement official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p>It was not clear how the man came into contact with the deadly substance, but aides to Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was related to his job as a drummer and that federal and city officials traced the exposure to New York City after the man became ill in Pennsylvania.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A West Village man has been hospitalized for a case of &#8220;accidental,&#8221; &#8220;naturally occurring&#8221; anthrax: A New York City man has been hospitalized with a case of anthrax that a federal law enforcement official said may have been contracted from animal skins during a visit to Africa. The infection appeared to be accidental, and authorities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}