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‘Miracle Man’ wins fight with Anthrax

Doctors say Dan Anders survived a rare and extremely deadly type of anthrax infection, which they assume he picked up from natural sources on his road trip

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Dan Anders and his wife, Anne, were wrapping up a glorious summer vacation when they arrived in Pelican Rapids, Minn., in early August to visit friends.

They had just spent three weeks on the road, visiting the great parks of Wyoming, Montana and the Dakotas. But Anders, 61, an active outdoorsman from Florida, was feeling a little “punky,” as he put it.

“I was overtired,” he said. “That’s what I thought.”

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