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A 27 page paper. Anthrax-laced letters were discovered only weeks after the terrorist attacks of 9/11. An attack involving anthrax spores being transmitted through the mail had never occurred to anyone but here it was. The U.S. Congress asked the Environmental Protection Agency to take control of the testing and decontamination of infected buildings. The EPA was basically operating in the dark; there were no protocols for such a situation. This paper discusses the extensiveness of the situation, the EPA's role in the projects, the criticism levied against the EPA and the final determination that this agency was successful in the cleanup. The writer also comments on the containment of anthrax to a very small number of infected persons. Experts report the numbers could have been much higher if the antibiotics had not been prescribed as a precautionary measure against the disease. The writer explains what anthrax is, where it is usually found, the elimination of the disease in the U.S., which chemicals were used and the processes used to decontaminate the many buildings and areas infected. Data are included. Bibliography lists 30 sources.
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File: MM12_PGganthrx.rtf
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late September, an anthrax-laced letter was opened by an innocent worker in the American Media company in Florida. Days later, a similar letter was opened by Tom Brokaws staff at
NBC studios and another anthrax-laced letter was opened in Senator Tom Daschles office in the Hart Senate Office Building. Soon, anthrax-laced letters were found in numerous locations. Workers became ill
and five would eventually die from inhalation anthrax. Thousands and thousands of employees across the nation were prescribed a 60-day regime of antibiotics as a precautionary measure to fight any
exposure to the anthrax spores. The country was still reeling from the terrorist attacks in New York City, at the Pentagon and from the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Thousands of people were still missing in the World Trade Towers collapse. It wasnt so much that the country wasnt living on pins-and-needles worrying about another attack. We were. What
was never expected was an attack that would be transmitted through envelopes in the post offices. Not even terrorist experts expected an attack of any kind of bacteria sent on
envelopes. The bacteria sent through the mail was anthrax, a disease that can be fatal and one that had been wiped out in the United States decades before. In
fact, not since the early 1900s had anthrax claimed multiple human lives. An isolated outbreak of anthrax in cattle had taken one life in 1992. For all intents and purposes,
anthrax was not a disease of concern - until late September 2001. While federal and state agencies were still enmeshed in the aftermath of the terrorist hijackings, another crisis
had to be answered. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stepped up to deal with this latest attack. They did so at the request of the United States Congress. The EPA
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