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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: athrax terrorism event

Context: general information

Event Type: Man-made

Agent Type: bacteria

Specify Agent (Name): anthrax

International: no

Intentional/Unintentional: intentional


Subject:
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Anthrax
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents
Bacillus Anthracis
Bioterrorism
Disaster Planning/standards
Guidelines As Topic
Hazardous Substances
Postal Service
Spores, Bacterial

Series:
HAN ; 027
Document Type:
HAN Health Advisory
Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
Health Alert Network (HAN)
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:9dc1e687386310b3426325403b23875b172615328f057b94ddc1789bff8c0882
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