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...Meanwhile, Washington, D.C. postal employees are fuming over what they see as the government's inexcusable lapse in safety procedures. The anthrax-contaminated Brentwood postal facility, workplace of the two postal workers who died from pulmonary anthrax, remained closed at the end of the week, designated a crime scene...
...that the link between mail and anthrax has been firmly established, health officials say, the key is keeping the nation's postal workers safe - even while they continue to go about their suddenly hazardous jobs. Postal workers are in the trenches here at home. "The mail and our employees have become the target of terrorists," Postmaster General John Potter said. Representatives of the postal workers' union are considering various protective measures, including special gloves and masks, for those who handle mail. Potter insisted Wednesday that any danger to the general public was "slim," and argued against a temporary suspension...
...Postal workers are, of course, at the center of the anthrax storm. Postal union members in two cities plan to file lawsuits against management; in New York, the workers are suing to close the Manhattan processing facility, where traces of anthrax were found on a sorting machine. In Florida, union members claim management did not respond adequately to workers' safety concerns after the first case of anthrax was diagnosed in Boca Raton...
Upon arriving at work last Thursday, a Michigan postal worker threw three buckets of animal feces at his co-workers. He peacefully surrendered to police...
...casualties from the anthrax attacks continue to build—most recently with the deaths of two postal workers in Washington and the illness of another in Trenton, N.J.—the need for an increased supply of the antibiotic Cipro has become more apparent. No one yet knows how extensive a biological attack might be—and if any significant attack occurred, hoarding of the antibiotic by those unaffected only would only make a shortage of the drug worse. Although Bayer A.G., the German-based company that holds the Cipro patent, has assured the public that...