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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...
...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...
...caution Hastert and Gephardt displayed was vindicated somewhat when the environmental sweep turned up traces of anthrax in a House mailroom and, tragically so, when two District of Columbia postal workers died, perhaps from handling the Daschle letter, or other letters posted to members of Congress. Though six congressional office buildings remained closed for anthrax testing, the Senate went back into session on Tuesday with House members hard on their heels...