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Pentagon anthrax scare shuts military mailrooms in DC area
Hundreds of postal workers were offered antibiotics as initial tests detected anthrax at two military mailrooms and a DC facility handling mail to the armed forces. No symptoms reported, follow up tests pending for Fort Detrick and DC site. About 260 tested, 480 at Pentagon sites. 8,000 pieces of mail examined. Authorities say no arrests, investigation ongoing. Bush informed, precautions racialized to radiate and monitor. Antibiotics mobilized. no individual diagnoses.
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Pentagon
White House
Scott McClellan
McClellan
Bush
FBI
District of Columbia Facili
U.S. Army Research Institute For Infectious Diseases
Fort Detrick
D.C
Arlington
Fairfax County
Postal Service
Gerry McKiernan
Gregg Pane
Department of Health
Glenn Flood
Flood
Charles Dharapak
Associated Press
Falls Church