- HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban
President Fidel Castro says anthrax, the germ warfare agent which has killed
three people and spread panic in the United States over recent weeks, is
less worrying than a common cold.
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- ``Studied properly, anthrax is less serious than a cold,''
he said in a speech Wednesday in the eastern city of Santiago de Cuba.
``There are appropriate medicines to make the bacteria disappear very quickly.''
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- Castro said the current anthrax scare in the United States,
in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington, was being
exaggerated.
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- ``The intentional use of any product of this sort ...
is an unacceptable crime,'' he said. ``But they shouldn't allow this to
become an instrument of panic.''
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- Castro's speech, at the inauguration of a school for
social workers, was carried live on state TV.
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