| Sep 2001 | Sep 5, 2001 - By Vernon Loeb. The Pentagon is working to duplicate a modified strain of anthrax reportedly developed by Russian scientists to determine whether the strain is resistant to the anthrax vaccine administered to US military personnel, senior defense officials said yesterday. ... www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A42583-2001Sep4
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| Oct 2001 | Oct 9, 2001 - With the discovery that a second person in Florida has breathed anthrax spores, experts on the disease are finding it hard to come up with a ... Anthrax occurs from time to time in animals but is rare in humans, at least in the United States. People who handle hides or carcasses of ... www.nytimes.com/2001/10/09/us/nation-challenged-disease-natural-cause-appears-unlikely-2-anthrax-cases .html
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| Oct 12, 2001 - This article was reported and written by Gina Kolata, William J. Broad and Lawrence K. Altman. For instance, commercial crop-dusters usually dispense liquids, and their nozzles produce droplets far too large for sailing deep into human lungs. A terrorist would have to do major ... www.nytimes.com/2001/10/12/us/nation-challenged-disease-information-anthrax-derived-cases-mostly- outside-us.html?pagewanted=4
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| Oct 18, 2001 - WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and US Postal Service on Thursday offered a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to the arrest of those who sent anthrax through the mail. Investigators continued to link the various incidents through evidence. "Once again we call upon the public ... www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2001/10/18/anthrax-reward.htm
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| Oct 21, 2001 - By Chris Blackhurst. In Wynnewood Manor they know her as Terry, the mother in her mid-30s who collected their mail every weekday for three years. Today, Terry is being treated for exposure to anthrax, and black-jacketed FBI agents are swarming over the route she took. ... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anthrax-attacks-now-being-linked-to-us-rightwing-cranks- 632139.html
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| Oct 23, 2001 - WASHINGTON _ Anthrax has been detected on a machine that opens letters bound for the White House, officials announced Tuesday, bringing the bio-terrorism scare closer to another symbol of American power. No one at the White House has tested positive for exposure to the bacteria, ... www.accessmylibrary.com/premium/0286/0286-7845732.html
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| Oct 26, 2001 - A mail handler at a State Department postal center in suburban Virginia has anthrax in his lungs, officials said today. He is the fifth postal worker in the ... Law enforcement officials said the new case suggested that other letters with anthrax had been sent to the Washington area. ... www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/us/a-nation-challenged-the-disease-another-postal-worker-contracts-inhaled- anthrax.html?pagewanted=all
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| Oct 30, 2001 - (CNN) -- A top federal health official said Tuesday that authorities are "intensively investigating" the possibility that private homes are being targeted for anthrax-tainted mail sent through the US Postal Service. "Up to [Monday], there was no evidence at all that there could be ... www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/30/anthrax/index.html
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| Nov 2001 | Nov 1, 2001 - The death from inhalation anthrax yesterday of a woman who worked at a hospital in New York adds a puzzling new dimension to the anthrax scare. Hers was the second case of anthrax in recent days that seemed to fall outside the previous pattern of contamination that exposed only people ... www.nytimes.com/2001/11/01/opinion/a-puzzling-anthrax-death.html
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| Dec 2001 | Dec 19, 2001 - By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and DAVID E. ROSENBAUM. Federal health officials said today that they would offer the military's anthrax vaccine, as well as extra medicine, to thousands of workers on Capitol Hill and postal employees who were exposed to anthrax and remain at slight risk of ... www.nytimes.com/2001/12/19/us/a-nation-challenged-prevention-us-will-offer-anthrax-shots-for- thousands.html?pagewanted=all
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