Public health guidance for anthrax threat letters or packages

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Tuesday, October 09, 2001, 23:23 EDT (11:23 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00027-2001-10-09-ADV-N
  
  Recently, a number of individuals and organizations have received envelopes or packages with letters indicating that anthrax was either on the letter or in the envelope. Some of these envelopes may have suspicious contents. CDC previously has issued guidance to help address these events in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Bioterrorism Alleging Use of Anthrax and Interim Guidelines for Management -- United States, 1998. MMWR 1999:48 (no.4) (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm4804.pdf).
  
  Event Type: anthrax terrorism event
  
  Context: general information
  
  Event Type: Man-made
  
  Agent Type: bacteria
  
  Specify Agent (Name): anthrax
  
  International: no
  
  Intentional/Unintentional: intentional
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anthrax Anti-Bacterial Agents Anti-Infective Agents Bacillus Anthracis Bioterrorism Disaster Planning/standards Guidelines As Topic Hazardous Substances Postal Service Spores, Bacterial
• Source:
  HAN ; 027
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Advisory
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Issue:
  27
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
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