31.   There also have been seven confirmed and five probable cases of skin anthrax infections, a milder form of the disease.

32.   These bacteria can cause such ailments as strep throat, food poisoning, and skin infections.

33.   They saw people with oozing skin infections who were too weak to brush the flies away from their pus.

34.   Two other workers from the Hamilton center are also suspected of having anthrax, one with a skin infection, the other with inhalation anthrax.

35.   Two other Trenton-area postal workers are fighting anthrax skin infections.

36.   Until now, most of the cases involved less lethal skin infections, and officials mounted immediate and highly visible dragnets in places where poisoned letters may have passed.

37.   A day earlier, a New Jersey woman with a skin infection became the first person in the state with no links to the Postal Service to contract anthrax.

38.   And the anthrax cases in recent weeks had involved skin infections, less dangerous than the inhaled form.

39.   Aridjis likened the case to the killer whale Keiko, which developed a skin infection after being confined to a cramped pool at another Mexico City amusement park.

40.   Army Dr. Karl Bauer said it was probably a fungal skin infection.