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Volume 10, Number 6, June 2004

Airborne Infection with Bacillus anthracis—from Mills to Mail

Kevin P. Fennelly,* Amy L. Davidow,* Shelly L. Miller,† Nancy Connell,* and Jerrold J. Ellner*
*New Jersey Medical School–UMDNJ, Newark, New Jersey, USA; and †University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

 
 
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Figure. Risk for airborne infection with Bacillus anthracis in various scenarios. Home and office exposures are for 1 hour, and postal facility exposures are for 8 hours; for postal facilities, the models assume a 14.6 L/min pulmonary ventilation rate with moderate work, comparable to the rate used to estimate inhaled doses in the Manchester study. ACH, air changes per hour.

 

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