very serious, of course life-threatening potential disease here. infection here. that s an open question. were they handing this stuff after the discovery and why that delay before they were treated? it s a real problem, and it s one reason why they re investigating this closely. these live anthrax samples, they were sent through fedex, what was the theory behind that? well when if they re neutralized samples, they ship them with precautions that would make that safe but when they re live samples, it s a different story, of course you can ship live samples, but under a stricter protocol here. and this is another place where you have an open question why did these samples get through right now with their focussing on is the radiation process. basically, these samples are radiated to kill them so that they are no longer live no longer much of a threat. it is believed they were radiated but well enough. was there a problem in the process that left the samples