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| Anthrax Affecting More in US |
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TUE, OCT 16, 2001
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The anthrax scare is spreading. A letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office tested positive for anthrax. All staffers exposed were tested, some are being treated. A baby of an ABC News employee is under treatment for the skin form of anthrax and another man in Florida tests positive for the inhaled version of the disease.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said that his office had been quarantined and closed after the letter had been confirmed to contain anthrax spores. Daschle's letter was postmarked from Trenton, New Jersey, as was the one previously sent to NBC's Tom Brokaw.
Officials in the House and Senate ordered all congressional offices to refrain from opening mail.
At a press conference in New York, the president of ABC News and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani confirmed that a young child of an employee of ABC News has tested positive for the cutaneous or skin form of anthrax, after having visited the ABC News facility on September 28th. The child is under treatment and expected to make a full recovery. No other ABC employees are reported to be infected at this time.
New York's Police Commissioner announced that all the mailrooms of the media outlets in New York are being examined as a precaution.
Meanwhile in Florida, state health officials announced that a second man has been diagnosed with the inhaled form of anthrax. Anthrax spores have now been found in a Boca Raton, Florida mail facility.
Officials are urging their nervous citizens to remain vigilant, but calm, and say anthrax is not contagious and can be treated.
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