Revised CDC guidelines for state health departments to state health officers, state epidemiologists and state laboratory directors

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Thursday, October 18, 2001, 13:27 EDT (1:27 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00032-2001-10-18-ALT-N
  
  Many facilities in communities around the country have received anthrax threat letters. Most were empty envelopes; some have contained powdery substances. The purpose of these guidelines is to recommend procedures for handling such incidents.
  
  Event Type: anthrax terrorism event
  
  Context: multiple guidelines
  
  Event Type: Man-made
  
  Agent Type: bacteria
  
  Specify Agent (Name): anthrax
  
  International: no
  
  Intentional/Unintentional: intentional
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anthrax Bacillus Anthracis Bioterrorism Disaster Planning Hazardous Substances Laboratories Postal Service Public Health Safety/standards Specimen Handling/standards Spores, Bacterial State Government

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• Source:
  HAN ; 032
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Update
• Genre:
  Guideline
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  11 unnumbered pages
• Issue:
  32
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a62a611e70be169d4a03068ef16d3358cb8ff0ecd9d574a6e697b103dc05e8ab8b3066f8d5dddd35288eee71f3c3353a4a803a6d6acaef611c38cb900ba9fbc8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/24945/cdc_24945_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.11 MB ]