Volume 8, Number 10, October 2002

Inhalational Anthrax Outbreak among Postal Workers, Washington, D.C., 2001

Puneet K. Dewan,* Alicia M. Fry,* Kayla Laserson,* Bruce C. Tierney,* Conrad P. Quinn,* James A. Hayslett,* Laura N. Broyles,* Andi Shane,* Kevin L. Winthrop,* Ivan Walks,† Larry Siegel,† Thomas Hales,* Vera A. Semenova,* Sandra Romero-Steiner,* Cheryl Elie,* Rima Khabbaz,* Ali S. Khan,* Rana A. Hajjeh,* Anne Schuchat,* and members of the Washington, D.C., Anthrax Response Team*[1]
*Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and †Washington, D.C., Department of Health, Washington, D.C., USA

Figure 2. Comparing the time period that the case-patients were at the Washington, D.C., Postal Processing and Distribution Center (solid black bars) to the time period that the two envelopes containing Bacillus anthracis spores were processed at the facility (gray bars = known location, gray hatched bars = unknown location) on October 12, 2001. The time that the high-speed sorting machine (delivery bar-code sort number 17) was cleaned, by blowing compressed air into the machine, is denoted by the gray striped area.

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