Looks like baddog is right:
http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/poison/hallowee.htm
I was kinda suprised, but guess I shouldn't have been. Remember the pepsi cola syringe thing? Over 60 reported cases - everyone proven a hoax except for one which they could not show either way (the first one).
Sad to see this happen to a child, but the sad fact is that children die everyday - and sometimes we just don't know why. We may never know. A friend of mine was engaged to be married to a man that just fell over and died (literally) one day a few years ago. They don't know why.
Of course, if I lived in that neighborhood - I wouldn't be eating any of my candy to be on the safe side, but that really is just a human reaction.
Within anthrax - neeedles - and everything else - the chances are so rare it is important to put it in perspective. You probably have a 100x greater chance of getting killed in an accident driving to pick up your anthrax antibiotics - than you ever do of getting anthrax.
Just like voting - it is very dangerous - you have a better chance dying on your way to the poll - than that any vote you cast will make a difference in an election. Except maybe in Florida.
And unfortunately, you probably have a better chance that a kid will be hit by a car trick or treating than anything else.
But we still have trick or treating, and still have driving.
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