Results of tests on powder found at Fort McPherson, Georgia

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Saturday, February 23, 2002, 22:40 EST (10:40 PM EST)
  
  CDCHAN-00078-2002-02-23-UPD-S
  
  As reported via the Health Alert Network earlier today, on February 22, 2002, at 5:30 PM EST, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was notified of a possible anthrax incident at Fort McPherson, Georgia. Law enforcement transported the sample to CDC's laboratory facilities in Atlanta for further testing.
  
  Updated CDC laboratory results are as follows:
  
  • PCR: Negative
  
  • Culture: No growth of any organism after 24 hours
  
  Culture will be signed out to the State and Federal agencies as negative for Bacillus anthracis.
  
  Event Type: rule out anthrax
  
  Context: general information
  
  Event Type: Man-made
  
  Agent Type: bacteria
  
  Specify Agent (Name): not anthrax
  
  International: no
  
  Intentional/Unintentional: intentional
  
  
• Subjects:
  Anthrax Military Facilities
• Source:
  HAN ; 078
• Series:
  Health Alert Network
• Document Type:
  HAN Health Update
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia
• Pages in Document:
  1 unnumbered page
• Issue:
  78
• Collection(s):
  Health Alert Network (HAN)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d88a8f4aabd0c9a60a18a1e1d4eeb40d13cd6cc02c2f0c28e7448710e800495a500887d1611c98dd899903eec60dacb66b840eb2483b5fc636b35179a66a8437
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