Florida cases likely to be first ever anthrax attack. The New Scientist is reporting that, in addition to the death of Robert Stevens, the detection of anthrax bacilli on his computer keyboard and in the nasal passages of a second worker in the company, another employee has developed suggestive pneumonia symptoms and so has a man in Virginia who recently visited the company. This appears to be “the first documented and fatal attack with anthrax, long feared as a biological weapon.”