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...masks. Only those that meet filter efficiencies recommended for anthrax by the Centers for Disease Control. The Postal Service has purchased and is distributing to its employees 4 million masks that it claims will filter 95% of all microbes in the air, including anthrax spores. Their use is voluntary, and they must fit snugly against the skin (no beards or stray locks of hair). Perhaps even more effective, but probably too expensive for the Postal Service, is a hood and battery-powered filter combination originally designed for medical personnel working with drug-resistant-tuberculosis patients...
...gloves being distributed to postal workers offer any protection against cutaneous anthrax infection...
...there any way to spot anthrax-contaminated letters before they get into the system...
Perhaps. Some military units are equipped with devices the size of large TV sets that can identify airborne anthrax in wartime situations. They would have to be made a lot smaller, cheaper and more sensitive to be suitable for postal work...
Kits to test for anthrax at home are now being marketed aggressively to consumers, but experts say home testing of any kind is a bad idea. The strips and swabs used by biohazard personnel to find anthrax in the field are not made for home use. They are designed for trained technicians equipped to handled toxic material...