HARTFORD, Conn. (AP)
— An elderly woman who lives
on her own in the farm country
of southwestern Connecticut
has inhalation anthrax, accord
ing to initial test results dis
closed Tuesday.
The patient, who is in her
90s, was hospitalized in critical
condition. Gov. John Rowland
said. He said more test results
were pending and there was no
indication of a criminal act.
The woman tested positive
for the more deadly inhaled
form of the disease in five sepa
rate tests conducted by the
Department of Public Health
and Griffin Hospital in Derby,
Rowland said.
More tests were being con
ducted by experts at the federal
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention in Atlanta. Results
are expected Wednesday.
“Testing by the CDC could
prove negative,’* Rowland said.
Rowland said the woman
lives in Oxford, a rural commu
nity of about 9.800 people 30
miles southwest of Hartford.
She was originally treated for
pneumonia and admitted Friday
to the Derby hospital after
being brought in by a family
member, said the hospital’s
president, Patrick Channel.
“It's difficult to explain how
the person contracted anthrax,”
Rowland said. “There is no evi
dence they contracted the dis
ease as a result of a criminal act.”
The FBI and state police have
secured the woman’s home and
are conducting a criminal inves-
tigation. Rowland said. The
woman lives by herself and has
a limited routine.
Nationwide, four people have
died and 13 have been sickened
by anthrax since early October.
It's the first case of inhaled
anthrax since a New York City
hospital employee died Oct. 31.
Joxel Garcia, the state health
commissioner, said the state
received positive tests from the
hospital Monday and immedi
ately began conducting its own
investigation.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Man dies in high-speed collision with duck
Resnick, 31, of Hollywood, died of a
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A
man dashing across a lake on a cus
tomized personal watercraft at
about 55 mph was killed in an
apparent collision with a flying duck.
Leon Resnick, an employee of Riva
Yamaha, was testing the water jet-pro
pelled craft Thursday on a lake about
20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale,
investigators said Monday.
A co-worker who was watching
turned to pick up a radar gun to
check Resnick’s speed, and when
he turned back Resnick was no
longer aboard the craft.
blow to his head, the Broward County
medical examiner's office said.
"Our theory is that the bird was
airborne and clocked him in the
head," said David Bamdas, an
owner of the dealership.
At the speed Resnick was travel
ing, the 10- to 15-pound duck
"might as well have been a cinder
block,” Bamdas said.
The bird's carcass was found
nearby and there were feathers on
the water bike’s handlebars, said
Broward County sheriff's
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