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Anthrax has taken another life, this time in New York City. Kathy Nguyen, a 61-year-old worker at the Eye Ear and Throat Hospital in Manhattan, died early Wednesday morning, just as a new case of skin anthrax emerged in another non-postal, non-media worker. In what initially appeared to be an equally mysterious case, a 51-year-old accountant from New Jersey was diagnosed this week with cutaneous anthrax; Friday, investigators found anthrax spores in her home mailbox...
...test results indicate the anthrax bacterium has spread to the Midwest; spores were found on mailbags in Kansas, City Missouri. Nearly 200 local postal workers are now taking antibiotics. Overseas, environmental tests at the U.S. embassies in Greece, Peru and Lithuania revealed trace amounts of anthrax, while on Friday, a contaminated letter forced the evacuation of Pakistan's largest newspaper...
Workers in admission offices at Harvard and Princeton are taking similar precautions in opening mail, using U.S. Postal Service recommendations as guidelines...
Moore said all suspicious mail can be directed to the Harvard Environmental Health and Safety Department, where it is heat-shocked to kill all bacteria. However, with the Postal Service’s plan to sanitize all incoming mail, a project that will cost billions of dollars, this will be no longer necessary...
...anxiety level was already plenty high. Anthrax exposure was appearing at all the networks, in the midtown Manhattan office of New York Governor George Pataki and among lab and postal workers who had handled suspicious letters. The Capitol had been on edge for weeks; even the undersides of cars carrying House and Senate leaders were being checked with big dentist's mirrors, sniffed by dogs and searched for bombs. The vague but ominous FBI warnings had left even the leaders spooked. "I worry in the Capitol," Senate minority leader Trent Lott admitted. "We minimize the threat, perhaps irresponsibly. We have...