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10/04/2001
Man hospitalized in Florida with anthrax; U.S. government says no evidence it was terrorism
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A businessman has been hospitalized in Florida with inhalation anthrax, an extremely rare and lethal disease mentioned as a possible biological weapon. U.S. health officials said there was no evidence of terrorism but promised "a very intense investigation."
 
10/06/2001
No answers in Florida anthrax case
LANTANA, Fla. — Investigators said they had no answers as to how a Florida man who died from a rare form of anthrax caught the disease after they searched his home and workplace and tracked his movements over the past few weeks.
 
10/10/2001
Source of anthrax investigated in Florida as fear of further infections lingers
BOCA RATON, Fla. – FBI agents wearing white moon suits and gas masks scoured the newspaper offices of two men whose exposure to anthrax has prompted heightened fear of bioterrorism across the country.
 
10/13/2001
New York case raises fears of anthrax
Nearly three weeks after an unknown powder spilled from an anonymous letter, an aide to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw was found to have the skin form of anthrax Friday, adding a new dimension to the outbreak that killed a tabloid editor in Florida a week earlier.
 
10/15/2001
Number exposed to anthrax reaches a dozen
NEW YORK – Americans returning to work faced anxious moments opening envelopes after the number of people across the nation exposed to anthrax sent through the mail jumped.
 
10/16/2001
Wing of Senate office building closed; authorities see link with anthrax letter to NBC
WASHINGTON – Authorities closed an entire wing of an eight-story Senate office building Tuesday and prepared to test and treat hundreds of people for possible exposure to anthrax after overnight results confirmed the presence of spores in mail addressed to Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
 
Investigators probe media mailrooms
NEW YORK — Investigators took to media mailrooms across New York after learning that an ABC News producer's infant son was diagnosed with anthrax. Hours earlier, the scare moved into the halls of Congress when a letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle tested positive for anthrax bacteria.
 
Survival of second Florida inhaled anthrax victim is positive sign for treatment
The recovery of a newspaper mailroom worker from inhaled anthrax raises the possibility that fast, all-out treatment with the latest antibiotics may be more effective than experts had assumed.
 
FBI says anthrax at Fla. publisher probably arrived in the mail; letter feared lost
BOCA RATON, Fla. – The anthrax that contaminated a supermarket tabloid building in Florida probably arrived in a letter that was tossed in the trash and burned before investigators looked at it, the FBI said Tuesday.
 
10/17/2001
FBI compares letters sent Daschle, Brokaw
WASHINGTON — A letter mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle contained a potent form of anthrax that appeared to be the work of experts, the senator and other officials said Tuesday. Hundreds of people were taking precautionary doses of antibiotics.
 
More than 30 test positive for anthrax exposure
WASHINGTON – Thirty-one Senate employees tested positive for anthrax exposure, officials said Wednesday as the threat of bioterrorism rattled Capitol Hill.
 
Anthrax found in Pataki's office
NEW YORK — Anthrax has been discovered in Gov. George Pataki's Manhattan office, the governor said Wednesday.
 
10/18/2001
NY-Florida anthrax link found
WASHINGTON – Anthrax-laced letters that infected people in New York and Florida were the same strain, federal health officials said Wednesday, citing preliminary tests.
 
Stamps, bar codes give clues to letters' source
TRENTON, N.J. — Detectives looking for the source of anthrax-contaminated letters sent to NBC and the Senate majority leader are using the pre-stamped envelopes and bar codes to narrow their search.
 
Six anthrax infections now confirmed; thousands tested; U.S. offers $1 million reward
WASHINGTON – Two new cases of the skin form of anthrax were reported Thursday, one involving an assistant to CBS anchorman Dan Rather and the other a postal worker in New Jersey. That brought to six the total number of confirmed cases of infection.
 
10/20/2001
Mailbox pinpointed in anthrax cases
WASHINGTON — Authorities say they have pinpointed the New Jersey post office sorting box from which anthrax-bearing letters were sent, advancing their investigation even as two more people were found to have the skin form of the disease.
 
Anthrax found in U.S. House complex
WASHINGTON — Authorities have discovered evidence of anthrax in a House office building that processes mail for lawmakers, congressional officials said Saturday as hazardous materials teams methodically worked their way across Capitol Hill.
 
10/21/2001
Postal worker 'gravely ill' with inhaled anthrax
WASHINGTON — A capital postal worker is ``gravely ill'' with inhaled anthrax, leading government officials to order the testing of an additional 2,150 mail employees, Mayor Anthony Williams said Sunday.
 
10/22/2001
Experts: Unlikely that post office contamination tainted other mail with anthrax
WASHINGTON – It's highly unlikely that any anthrax present in a Washington post office could have contaminated other letters awaiting delivery to people's homes, anthrax experts said Monday.
 
10/23/2001
Capitol to open, other buildings remain closed
WASHINGTON — 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.
 
10/24/2001
Postmaster general says no guarantee mail is safe, risk of anthrax is small
WASHINGTON – With cases of anthrax growing, the nation's postmaster general warned Americans Wednesday there are no guarantees the mail delivered to their homes is safe but he stressed that the risks to them are slim. The anthrax scare widened to include the White House.
 
10/25/2001
Second skin anthrax likely found at NBC
NEW YORK — City officials said Thursday that a probable case of skin anthrax has been found at NBC, stemming from the same letter that is believed to have infected an assistant to news anchor Tom Brokaw.
 
Bush team struggles to make mail safe
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration struggled Wednesday to make the nation's vast postal system and its 800,000 employees safe from anthrax. Surgeon General David Satcher bluntly admitted ``we were wrong'' not to respond more aggressively to tainted mail in the nation's capital.
 
New anthrax found in Senate building
WASHINGTON — Investigators said they have discovered anthrax in a new location in the Hart Senate office building Wednesday evening, even as another congressional office building became the first to reopen since a letter contaminated with the bacteria was discovered last week on Capitol Hill.
 
Senate building portion indefinitely sealed
WASHINGTON — An entire portion of a Senate office building where anthrax was discovered last week will have to be sealed off indefinitely, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said Thursday.
 
10/26/2001
Supreme Court mail has anthrax scare
WASHINGTON — Anthrax was discovered Friday on a filter removed from a warehouse that screens mail headed for the Supreme Court, a spokeswoman said.
 
Bush mourns postal worker victims
WASHINGTON — President Bush mourned the anthrax-related deaths of two postal service workers Friday and said they had died in the line of duty in a two-front war against terrorists.
 
10/27/2001
U.S. thinks letters from same source
WASHINGTON — Based on handwriting analysis and sophisticated profiling, investigators suspect one person wrote the three letters contaminated with anthrax but have drawn no conclusions about who is behind the attacks, government officials said Friday.
 
Search for anthrax expands
WASHINGTON — The Postal Service buried a mail handler killed by anthrax — the second funeral in two days — while the search for the bacteria widened Saturday to thousands of businesses in Washington and 30 mail distribution centers. Authorities worried that there might be a second anthrax-laced letter, or more, not yet discovered.
 
10/28/2001
8th inhalation anthrax case confirmed; post office pledges to keep mail moving as it searches for tainted letters
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Disease Control and prevention confirmed Sunday that a female New Jersey postal worker has inhalation anthrax, the most serious form of the disease that has claimed three lives and prompted thousands to take antibiotics.
 
10/29/2001
Anthrax found in mailroom in main Supreme Court building; court sits in borrowed quarters
WASHINGTON – Weekend tests revealed anthrax in the mailroom of the main Supreme Court building, a spokeswoman said Monday.
 
10/31/2001
Woman's death spotlights lack of answers
WASHINGTON — A New York woman died of inhalation anthrax on Wednesday, the fourth person to perish in a spreading wave of bioterrorism. A co-worker underwent tests for a suspicious skin lesion, heightening concern the disease was spreading outside the mail system.
 
11/01/2001
Postal testing for anthrax turns to Indiana, Kansas City facilities
WASHINGTON – Traces of anthrax contamination are being cleaned up at mail-related facilities in Kansas City, Mo., and Indianapolis as the Postal Service continues to struggle with bioterrorism spread by the mail.
 
Experts to use high tech foam and a killing gas to stamp out anthrax hot spots
WASHINGTON – When it comes to anthrax, the experts are not sure how clean is clean enough.
 
11/02/2001
While anthrax questions remain, some normalcy returns to Washington, justices back at Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – Investigators have found anthrax in the office mailbox of a New Jersey woman with skin anthrax, suggesting she was exposed through the mail like other victims, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson told The Associated Press on Friday.
 
11/05/2001
Anthrax found in Pentagon Post Office; retesting negative after decontamination
WASHINGTON – Two postal boxes at a U.S. Post Office inside the Pentagon have tested positive for anthrax, officials said Monday. One of the boxes was rented by an unidentified Navy service member and the other was unassigned.
 
11/07/2001
Post office boosts reward in anthrax case, mailing industry offers its support
WASHINGTON – The Postal Service upped its reward offer in the anthrax-by-mail attacks. The advertising company Advo chipped in $250,000 to boost the reward to $1.25 million, Postmaster General John E. Potter announced Wednesday.
 
11/09/2001
Anthrax found in 4 N.J. post offices
TRENTON, N.J. — Anthrax has been found at four more New Jersey post offices in a potential break in the search for the source of contaminated letters sent to Washington and New York, The Associated Press learned Friday.
 
11/10/2001
FBI profiles anthrax mailer
WASHINGTON — The terrorist who mailed anthrax-tainted letters is probably a man, something of a loner with scientific ability who ``lacks the personal skills necessary to confront others'' face to face, the FBI said Friday in a fresh plea for the public's help in solving the baffling case.
 
Trace amounts of anthrax found in Capitol Hill offices of five more senators
WASHINGTON – Trace amounts of anthrax have been discovered in five more Senate offices in the same building where a letter containing the bacteria was opened Oct. 15.
 
11/13/2001
Rapid diagnosis and aggressive treatment can drop inhaled anthrax mortality to about 40 percent, studies suggest
WASHINGTON – Doctors who recognized the recent cases of inhaled anthrax and treated them aggressively with antibiotics have shown the disease is treatable and not a sure death sentence, experts say.
 
11/20/2001
Post office resumes delivery of mail to government offices
WASHINGTON – Quarantined, sanitized and deemed anthrax-free, millions of pieces of backlogged mail are on their way to government agencies for the first time in more than a month.
 
11/21/2001
Elderly Connecticut woman dies of anthrax as nation's investigation takes new twist
DERBY, Conn. – A 94-year-old woman who lived alone and seldom left her rural home died of the inhaled form of anthrax Wednesday in a baffling new twist in the bioterrorism investigation.
 
11/25/2001
Leahy: Enough anthrax in letter to kill 100,000
WASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy says there was enough anthrax in the letter sent to his office to kill more than 100,000 people.
 
11/30/2001
Anthrax trace found in Connecticut
HARTFORD, Conn. — Investigators searching for the source of the anthrax that killed a 94-year-old woman said Friday that they had found the germ on a letter sent to a nearby home.
 
12/02/2001
Workers finish anthrax decontamination of Senate building and collect lab samples to confirm results expected in a week
WASHINGTON – Using toxic gas and other decontaminants, Environmental Protection Agency crews wrapped up their cleanup Sunday of anthrax spores in a dozen senators' suites and drew samples for lab tests.
 
Trace amounts of anthrax found at Connecticut postal facility that served 94-year-old victim
HARTFORD, Conn. – Trace amounts of anthrax were found at a postal facility that sorts mail for the town where a 94-year woman mysteriously died of the disease last month, officials said Sunday.
 
12/03/2001
Spores found on postal machines in Connecticut center serving town where anthrax victim died
HARTFORD, Conn. – After a trace of anthrax turned up at a postal center in Wallingford, the top federal health official said Monday he believes there is enough evidence to label the death of 94-year-old Ottilie Lundgren a case of cross-contamination from the mail.
 
Thousands of letters may have anthrax
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of letters mailed around the country may have picked up trace amounts of anthrax in a New Jersey postal facility, but it's unclear what if anything should be done to track them down, anthrax investigators said.
 
12/07/2001
Fed mail tests positive for anthrax
WASHINGTON — A batch of mail being processed at a mail-handling facility set up in a courtyard of the Federal Reserve's headquarters has tested positive for exposure to anthrax, officials said late Thursday.
 
Mail being irradiated for anthrax catches fire at New Jersey plant; 90 pounds of mail destroyed
BRIDGEPORT, N.J. – Batches of mail being treated with radiation to eliminate possible anthrax contamination caught fire, apparently because some material overheated, officials said Friday.
 
12/14/2001
Trace anthrax amounts found in Senate
WASHINGTON — Trace amounts of anthrax were found in a Senate office building that had been fumigated with chlorine dioxide gas two weeks ago in an attempt to kill lingering spores. Officials said Friday that they would try again to eliminate the contamination.
 
01/02/2002
EPA says preliminary results indicate anthrax spores killed in latest fumigation of Senate building
WASHINGTON – A third attempt at fumigating the Hart Senate Office Building with poisonous gas appears to have killed remaining anthrax spores, federal environmental officials say.
 
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