Word: postal
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...Postal workers? anxiety Tensions in the nation?s post offices and mail sorting facilities remain high. Two more Washington, D.C.-area postal facilities tested positive for anthrax: A Friendship Heights post office and a retail store in Dulles. Employees at both locations are urged to begin antibiotic treatment as soon as possible...
...Sunday, a New Jersey postal employee who works at the Hamilton mail facility was hospitalized with inhalation anthrax; the tainted letters sent to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle both passed through the Hamilton center, and authorities are trying to recreate the path and timeline of the letters' travels...
...York City, postal workers union members filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, demanding the Morgan postal facility in midtown Manhattan be closed for thorough cleaning. Environmental tests revealed anthrax spores on four of the center?s sorting machines. While postal officials are insisting Manhattan mail delivery will continue on a normal schedule, as many as 30 percent of the central facility?s workers have been absent from work in recent days, a five-fold increase from usual rates. Postal workers in Florida have filed a similar suit, claiming authorities did not respond quickly enough to postal workers' risk...
...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...
...Another theory holds that new anthrax-laced letters may be circulating through the mail system, contaminating postal equipment and other letters - and infecting more and more people...