This is from freepers, so I don't have the actual URL. The testing is being done here, and knowing those dopes, they'll spread it around. ;)

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MUSKOGEE - An unidentified man was being treated in a Muskogee Hospital Thurday for an illness he developed after he opened a letter that is now being tested for anthrax contamination.

A state Health Department lab in Oklahoma City could release the results of the testing Friday.

The incident, which happened the same day that anthrax spores were found at a postal center in Kansas City, Mo., raised fears that the deadly germs might somehow reach Oklahoma.

And although hoaxes have been abudnant throughout the state - including a scare Tuesday in the office of Muskogee Special District Judge Robin Adair - authorities believe they had reason to treat Thursday's incident seriously.

"What concerns us is the (man's) doctor was pretty concerned about it," Assistant Fire Chief Danny Tracy said. "We've got to treat it like it's the real thing."

A Muskogee police statement said the man apparently opened the "suspicious" letter Wednesday.

He began feeling sick and arrived at the Maternal and Family Practice office Thursday afternoon.

The man's physician, Dr. Mike Butner, called the ambulance service and police about the man's condition, Tracy said.

Butner was not available for comment Thursday evening.

"We don't know very much other than it was flu-like symptoms," Tracy said.

The man was taken to Muskogee Regional Medical Center, where his condition was not released. He remained at the hospital Thursday evening.

His car was examined briefly in the hospital's parking lot and then towed to the Davis Field airport for a closer inspection.

Motorists on Okmulgee Avenue saw firefighters, who were specially suited to handle hazardous materials, enter then '90s-model Chevrolet, the police statement said.

FBI agents and Muskogee Counter Emergency Management Director Mike Borum also were on the scene.

-- Anonymous, November 02, 2001