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...seven-month-old son of an ABC news producer is reportedly doing "very well" after being diagnosed with cutaneous anthrax. The boy, who visited the ABC newsroom late last month, is taking antibiotics, as are all ABC news employees who work in or around the newsroom...
...American Media Inc. employee Ernesto Blanco, 73, who earlier in the month was found to have anthrax spores in his nasal passages, was diagnosed Monday with inhaled anthrax. His condition is reported as "good." Blanco is a co-worker of photo editor Robert Stevens, who died last month after opening a letter laced with anthrax. Stevens remains the sole casualty from the disease...
...Ottawa, a section of the Canadian Parliament was temporarily closed off after an anthrax threat was reported; 35 government employees were taken to detoxification units following the scare...
...European front: After anthrax scares or threats, a train was evacuated in Italy, eleven Poles were sent to hospital for observation and three Czechs were sprayed with disinfectant. A dozen people in France are undergoing tests after one of them opened a "suspicious" piece of mail...
...plane; Brazil's defense minister grounded a Lufthansa plane after officials found a suspicious powder on board; the US consul in Sydney, Australia was evacuated after a staff member found a letter with a "chemical residue." In Kenya, two suspicious letters mailed from the U.S. have tested negative for anthrax...