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Anthrax News

Anthrax Preparedness In US To Involve Mailmen (Medical News Today) Earlier this week the US government announced measures to boost the nation's preparedness against a potentia outdoor anthrax attack: using letter carriers or mailmen on a voluntary basis to deliver supplies and medicines to residents in communities during an emergency. Emergent Wins New Contract for Anthrax Vaccine (Washington Post) A Rockville biotech will remain the government's sole anthrax vaccine supplier until new doses, based on more modern technologies, can be procured. Postal workers might deliver meds in next anthrax attack (USA Today) Federal health officials are planning to use mail carriers as a "quick strike force" to deliver antibiotics house-to-house should there be an anthrax attack, officials said Wednesday. Feds act to protect postal workers from another anthrax-like attack (Scientific American) When letters laced with anthrax-inducing spores were sent out seven years ago, U.S. Postal Service workers found themselves on the front lines of the attack. In Washington, D.C., alone, four workers at a mail-processing center developed inhalation anthrax, and two died. Federal investigators ended up testing 36 postal facilities in the D.C. area (including one where the two postal workers ... Mail may be best way for anthrax treatment (UPI) WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said he sees the mail as a quick way to deliver antibiotics in case of an anthrax attack.

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