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Emergency Service Unit Police Officer Richard Hand, right, tapes the
face mask into fellow ESU Officer Joe Toscano's biohazard suit at
the entrance to the Associated Press mailroom in New York. The AP
World Headquarters mailroom was examined as a precaution after it
was announced that a child of an American Broadcasting Company employee
tested positive for the skin form of anthrax. |
Investigators
target anthrax terrorism
Deaths
stun mail carriers
The anthrax war spread Monday, with the deadly bacterial spores probably killing two Washington postal workers ó casualties, in the words of one federal official.
• Home
mail not tainted with anthrax
Capitol to open, other buildings remain closed
WASHINGTON ó The House and Senate will hold regularly scheduled sessions Tuesday in the Capitol, but congressional office buildings will remain shuttered while environmental experts continue testing for anthrax contamination.
Unappreciated postal workers in the spotlight
NEW YORK – Accustomed to feeling underappreciated, America's postal workers now find themselves threatened, too, as they struggle to keep mail flowing in the face of a mysterious and deadly enemy.
Monday, Oct.
22
• Smallpox
vaccine can have deadly side effects
• Experts:
Unlikely other mail tainted with anthrax
• World
goes on anthrax alert
• Federal
Superfund program to clean up tabloid offices
• Postal
worker with inhalation anthrax serious
Sunday, Oct. 21
•
Capital postal worker 'gravely ill' with anthrax
• NY media anthrax tests are negative
Saturday, Oct.
20
• Anthrax
found in U.S. House complex
• Fears
of global anthrax threat grow
• Fla.
tabloid worker 'doing great'
• Anthrax
is same strain
• Mailbox
pinpointed in anthrax cases
Friday, Oct. 19
• Northwest
pulls sweeteners from flights
• Anthrax
testing at more Florida post offices
• Single
smallpox case would trigger immunizations
• Two
Senate buildings closed for anthrax testing
• Veteran
TV news reporter fired after anthrax joke
• Russian
city recalls deadly 1979 anthrax leak
• FBI
combs route of mail carrier with anthrax
Thursday, Oct.
18
• First
anthrax case appears overseas, in Kenya
• Six
anthrax infections now confirmed
• CBS
News employee tests positive for anthrax
• Brokaw,
Rather, Jennings are TV symbols – and maybe targets
• Sources:
New Jersey postal worker tests positive for anthrax exposure
• Stamps,
bar codes give clues to letters' source
• NY-Florida
anthrax link found
• Bush
administration wants half billion dollars for smallpox
• Officials
recommend antibiotics for dozens of people on flight
Wednesday, Oct.
17
• Anthrax
found in Pataki's office
• FBI
compares letters sent Daschle, Brokaw
• Congressional
leaders shut down House for first time
Tuesday, Oct.
16
• FBI
says anthrax letter feared lost
• Suspicious
mail and hoaxes spread worldwide
• Federal
officials announce anthrax indictment
• Survival
of second Florida anthrax victim is positive sign
• Wing
of Senate office building closed
• Investigators
probe media mailrooms
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