1.   Tarrant County Public Health Department officials said the chances are very slim that others will contract the bacteria from the Communion cup she used.

2.   People can contract the bacteria by eating contaminated, rare or inadequately cooked meat.

3.   Doctors believe he contracted the bacteria through stitches he had received following recent tooth surgery.

4.   Investigators found that women who had shaved their legs before soaking in the baths had a higher risk of contracting the bacteria.

5.   Investigators believe the Florida man who died of anthrax may have contracted the bacterium from a letter he handled at work that was destroyed before he became sick.

6.   It is not clear if that patient contracted the bacteria at St. Joseph, Harder said.

7.   Five other in-patients at the same hospital also contracted the bacteria, but they were recovering, the metropolitan government official said.