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Anthrax
Year-long follow-up finds no further postal workers affected
October 27th, 2003
Findings from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that the rates and causes of death among the United States Postal Service employees during the 12 months following the anthrax attacks were not different from those expected or unusual. CDC, in collaboration with state and local health departments in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, conducted a year-long investigation to evaluate the deaths of 11 United States Postal Service (USPS) workers who may have been exposed to Bacillus anthracis spores. The follow-up was published in the October 3, 2003, issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. ...
Source: Health & Medicine Week (2003-10-27)
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