Public Health Guidance for Anthrax Threat Letters or Packages [Tuesday, October 09, 2001, 23:23 EDT (11:23 PM EDT)]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Health Alert Network (HAN)
• 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
• Content Notes:
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• Subjects:
  • Anthrax
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Bacillus anthracis
  • Bioterrorism
  • Disaster Planning/standards
  • Guidelines as Topic
  • Hazardous Substances
  • Postal Service
  • Spores, Bacterial
• Keywords:
  • Health Alert Network
  • HAN
• Source:
  HAN ; 027
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Subseries:
  CDC Health Advisory
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Alert
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Issue:
  00027
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24940/cdc_24940_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 569.26 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
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