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To: Snowshoe who wrote (260)	10/31/2001 11:33:19 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 827

Anthrax Found in Kansas City, Health Officials Say Wednesday October 31 10:55 PM ET dailynews.yahoo.com KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Reuters) - A Kansas City mail facility was closed on Wednesday and its 200 staff urged to take antibiotics after preliminary tests showed anthrax contamination, officials said. They said the potentially deadly spores are believed to have been carried on 14 trays containing more than 7,000 pieces of mail sent from the Brentwood mail processing center in Washington, D.C., where two postal workers have died of the disease. No one who works at the Kansas City facility has shown any signs of illness, but all are being encouraged to begin taking antibiotics as a precaution, said Rex Archer, director of the Kansas City Health Department. The facility, known as a ``stamp fulfillment center'', handles the cancellation of collectible stamps. It has been closed indefinitely. Archer cautioned that although the initial tests were positive, confirmation would not come until tests conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control are completed. Those results may be available Thursday, he said. Earlier on Wednesday, anthrax spores were found in Indiana, where postal equipment had been sent from Washington to a repair and cleaning facility, Gov. Frank O'Bannon said. The CDC conducted tests and found spores on one machine, but the amount found was ``not a serious quantity,'' according to the governor's office. No one there has shown signs of infection. Four people have died in the U.S. from anthrax this month and a total of 16 people have contracted one or other form of the disease.

To: Snowshoe who wrote (260)	11/1/2001 7:25:27 AM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

Interesting. I've never seen a story in a major newspaper be so explicit, and have a govt official deny it so vehemently. Guess we'll have to go with Aschroft and the INS on this one for the time being, but I wonder who is planting these stories? Looks like disinformation from somewhere or other. All I can say is, I hope Ashcroft is right, there would be hell to pay if we found that he is out of the loop. And let's see what the Miami paper has to say. Here's this morning's story: A senior law enforcement official told The Herald Washington Bureau on Wednesday that the information on the six men was in the classified Daily Threat Report earlier this week, which is compiled from different sources by the Counter-Terrorism Center at the CIA and distributed to selected officials at the FBI and other agencies. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the men were carrying photos and descriptions of a Florida nuclear power plant and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. He said police released the men after the INS determined they were in the United States legally and had valid Israeli passports. Russ Bergeron, INS spokesman in Washington, issued a statement that said ``the INS and the FBI have thoroughly researched the story published [Wednesday] in The Miami Herald and other Knight Ridder newspapers. Both INS and the FBI believe this report is totally false. I would be very worried if there were such a senior law enformcement official, lying about something this important, or a reporter for a major newspaper, lying about something this important and wasting law enforcement officials' time. miami.com