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http://www.bahnhof.se/~wizard/HardaTider/index15.html
"Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after
entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body
was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. He
was killed after entering a low temperature storage area where biological
samples were kept. He did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had
leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen collapsed
and died."
Now for the intriguing part of this story. On Friday,
November 2nd, the Washington Post reported:
"Officials are now scrambling to determine how a quiet, 61-year-old
Vietnamese immigrant, riding the subway each day to and from her job in a
hospital stockroom, was exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that killed her
this week. They worry because there is no obvious connection to the factors
common to earlier anthrax exposures and deaths: no clear link to the mail or to
the media."
The name of this quiet 61 year old hospital worker was Kathy Nguyen.
