Volume 8, Number 10, October 2002

Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax

Epidemiologic Investigations of Bioterrorism-Related Anthrax, New Jersey, 2001

Carolyn M. Greene,* Jennita Reefhuis,* Christina Tan,*† Anthony E. Fiore,* Susan Goldstein,* Michael J. Beach,* Stephen C. Redd,* David Valiante,† Gregory Burr,* James Buehler,* Robert W. Pinner,* Eddy Bresnitz,† Beth P. Bell,* and the CDC New Jersey Anthrax Investigation Team [1]
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 2. Floor map of the Trenton Postal Distribution Center in Hamilton Township with locations of environmental samples taken October–November, 2001, and work stations of New Jersey case-patients on dates when letters containing Bacillus anthracis were sorted. Blue man = male, cutaneous anthrax; red woman = female, inhalational anthrax; *machine mechanic worked throughout the mail-sorting area the night the letters containing B. anthracis destined for New York were sorted.

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