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...Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson had put 7,000 more medical professionals on alert nationwide. The chronology of events, recorded in internal government documents, was obtained by TIME but not confirmed by HHS until last week. According to Thompson, Sept. 11 marked the first time the CDC's Health Alert System had been exercised so completely and at such an extraordinary level. "Granted," said Thompson, "we did not find any signs of bioterrorism. But we were there quickly...
...letter contained a powder substance, which tested negative for the disease). She reported the letter to the authorities, began getting tested for anthrax and started taking the antibiotic Cipro. She tested negative until this week, when she began exhibiting symptoms, including a lesion on her skin. FBI and CDC officials are on the scene in New York City; Mayor Giuliani says parts of Rockefeller Center will be closed off for a few days, and other NBC employees will be tested...
...sponsors of the event, the City Democratic Committee (CDC), served up pizza and soda, as well as three batches of separate candidate panels, which allowed each of the 15 participants a chance to speak...
After the CDC sent out a messenger to quiet an overbearing drum noise from a neighboring room in the YWCA, three consecutive panels—each a mix of incumbents, newcomers and repeat candidates— answered a series of questions on various issues such as whether recent re-zoning had done enough for traffic control and whether the city should directly elect its mayor...
...attack takes, all evidence suggests that the nation is still largely unprepared. That's beginning to change. The NRC has plans to beef up already heightened security at power plants, and public health officials are beginning to get serious about staving off biological assaults. Last year, for example, the CDC authorized a private company to cook up 40 million additional doses of smallpox vaccine to add to the U.S. stockpile--a job that will take several years. "We also need to develop new drugs and vaccines against other organisms that might be a threat," says Dr. Margaret Hamburg...