94 year-old Connecticut woman diagnosed with and dies of inhalation anthrax. No obvious source of the infection.

“Mrs. Lundgren lived in the rural part of Oxford, a postage-stamp of a

town in Connecticut’s Naugatuck River Valley. A niece told The Hartford

Courant that Mrs. Lundgren gave up her driver’s license a year ago, and

Mr. Rowland said her travels were mostly limited to local shops and

activities. “

NY Times I’m wondering if this, as well as the Kathy Nguyen case in the Bronx, aren’t sporadic cases which, before the era of heightened vigilance, would have been diagnosed as atypical pneumonia with few further qeustions.