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Life in Hamilton changed on Oct. 13 when the tuxedo-clad mayor was diverted from a fund-raising event by news that the anthrax-tainted letter sent to NBC was postmarked Trenton. That was bad for the citizens of Hamilton: mail postmarked Trenton is actually processed in their hometown. It's a sore point that the mail is stamped with the name of the state capital, some 10 miles away. Gilmore spent the next few days passing on reassurances of public-health officials that the risk of exposure for Hamiltonians was "infinitesimal...
...confirmed that two New Jersey postal workers, one from Hamilton, had been infected with anthrax. Gilmore knew from sources at Hamilton's Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital that there was not enough Cipro on hand to treat hundreds of postal workers and that many area pharmacies had run out. When he found out that state officials were planning to advise all Hamilton postal workers to contact their doctors and seek antibiotics, he was appalled. "The decision is made that they have to start a seven-day prescription of Cipro to maybe save their lives," he said. "But they're told...
...action. So on the afternoon of Oct. 19, he and the hospital sent a Hamilton patrol car to pick up 18,000 Cipro pills from a supplier in south Jersey. It arrived back in Hamilton just as a news conference was being held to announce another case of anthrax. Knowing that the local hospital now had a stash on hand, Gilmore stepped to the microphone and told workers they could get free treatment in his township. Some 1,500 postal workers have since gone to Robert Wood Johnson for their Cipro. When the initial supply ran out on Tuesday, Senator...
...Anthrax is the current focus of the nation's post-Sept. 11 trauma, but it's just one of many potential weapons in bioterrorism's terrible arsenal. How serious a threat are they? Or, for that matter, how deadly are the many other disease carriers, ranging from salmonella to drug-resistant TB strains to "flesh eating" bacteria, that might be unleashed by terrorists? What do they portend for the safety of the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we drink? Here are a few of the scenarios America may need to be prepared...
...scale with rocket-borne smallpox "bombs" that could hit targets up to 70 miles away. He never used them. Not that restraint has always been practiced. During World War II, Japanese planes dropped plague-infested fleas on Chinese and Soviet targets, while Britain plotted to kill German cattle with anthrax...