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That was before Kathy Nguyen died. On Thursday, Oct. 25, the Vietnamese-born hospital worker came down with chills and muscle aches. She went to work Thursday and Friday at the stockroom of the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But the symptoms worsened, and on Sunday she was hospitalized with severe breathing problems, fluid in her lungs, sputum tinged with blood and a 102[degree]F fever. By last Wednesday, Nguyen had succumbed to a galloping case of inhalational anthrax...
...With no strong leads, investigators are turning to the public for help. In Washington, the U.S. Postal Service upped its reward for information on the attacks to $1.25 million. In New York City, the FBI and local police have put up posters asking about Manhattan hospital worker Kathy Nguyen's whereabouts in the weeks before her death. It's possible, they think, that learning how she got inhalation anthrax could somehow triangulate on the attacker...
...Clues from the Nguyen case may well prove crucial to unraveling the widening anthrax mystery. As the fourth fatal instance of the disease, Nguyen's illness and death set off new alarms and raises increasingly urgent questions: Where is this bacteria coming from? How is it being distributed among people who do not handle mail on a regular basis...
...circle widens New York authorities have closed the hospital where Nguyen worked pending the results of environmental testing, and are interviewing anyone who visited the hospital after October 11th. Officials are retracing Nguyen's path over recent weeks, hoping to establish the root of her infection...
...Investigators are particularly mystified by the recent death of Kathy Nguyen, a New York hospital worker who had no regular contact with mail. Until the 61-year-old Bronx resident died Wednesday from a case of inhalation anthrax, health officials thought they'd cornered the bacteria in the postal system...