Recommendations for Visitors or Employees Who Were in the Hart Senate Buildings on 10/15/01 (Time Expanded to Include Visitors up to 7pm in the Hart Senate Office Bldg.) [Thursday, October 18, 2001, 13:27 EDT (1:27 PM EDT)]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Description:
  Thursday, October 18, 2001, 13:27 EDT (1:27 PM EDT)
  
  CDCHAN-00036-2001-10-18-ALT-N
  
  People who were on the 5th or 6th floor, SE wing, of the Hart Senate Building, Washington, D.C., between 9am-7pm on October 15, 2001, should receive 60 days of prophylaxis for possible anthrax exposure because it is believed that these individuals were potentially exposed to the bacteria. These individuals should not be given nasal swabs as a preliminary test for exposure to anthrax. Nasal swabs are primarily being used for epidemiological investigation, not for individual diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment.
  
  Event Type: anthrax terrorism event - Hart senate office bldg.
  
  Context: countermeasures/therapeutics
  
  Event Type: Man-made
  
  Agent Type: bacteria
  
  Specify Agent (Name): anthrax
  
  International: no
  
  Intentional/Unintentional: intentional
  
  
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• Subjects:
  Anthrax Anti-Bacterial Agents Antibiotic Prophylaxis Bacillus Anthracis Bioterrorism Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
• Keywords:
  HAN Health Alert Network
• Source:
  HAN ; 036
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Subseries:
  CDC Health Alert
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Alert
• Place as Subject:
  District of Columbia
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Issue:
  00036
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
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