11.30.2001

Ah, shit.

From WFSB.com:

Anthrax Found On Letter In Seymour


(Hartford-AP) An envelope sent to a home in Seymour has tested positive for a tiny amount of anthrax.

Governor Rowland says the home is about a mile from the home of 94-year-old Oxford woman who died last week of inhalation anthrax.

The governor says the sample was very tiny. He says it's so insignificant that no one in contact with the letter could have gotten anthrax or even become ill.

Investigators still don't know how Ottilie Lundgren of Oxford came in contact with the anthrax spores that killed her. One possibility under close scrutiny is cross-contamination of mail with anthrax-laden letters sent to political and media figures in Washington, D-C, and New York.

Authorities have been able to determine that a small amount of mail destined for the Oxford area passed through a New Jersey postal facility that also handled contaminated letters to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.

None of those letters went to Lundgren. But it is possible hermail came in contact with a letter that was contaminated in the New Jersey center.
If the news crews and vans that I had to drive around are any indication, this new "case" of anthrax was discovered 3 houses up the street from me. Back to the rubber gloves and face mask.

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