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CDC confirms New York Post employee has skin anthrax: Giuliani
An employee at the `New York Post` newspaper has contracted skin anthrax, the fifth anthrax case confirmed in the city by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
An employee at the 'New York Post' newspaper has contracted skin anthrax, the fifth anthrax case confirmed in the city by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
Results from a biopsy received on Friday showed that the male patient tested positive for anthrax by the CDC, The mayor said at a televised news conference. One New Yorker, a hospital worker, contracted the deadlier inhalation anthrax and died on Wednesday, the first fatality in New York and the fourth nationwide. The other four New Yorkers afflicted have skin anthrax.
The 'New York Post' employee had handled mail dating from September, Giuliani said, adding that he was being treated with antibiotics. The man was the 16th American with a confirmed case of anthrax in the continuing bio-terror attack. The fact that he was looking at mail gives us a hypothesis to work with, Giuliani said, while noting that the infection of the hospital worker with no links to the media, the government or the postal service remained a mystery.
Two other employees at the 'New York Post' have been infected with skin anthrax, but their cases have not been confirmed by the CDC. However, the Post's Suzi Halpin told news persons on Friday that the newspaper and the New York health authorities consider all three cases to be confirmed.
Giuliani said tests at deceased hospital worker Kathy Nguyen's home and workplace had all come back negative for anthrax contamination so far.
Bureau Report
Results from a biopsy received on Friday showed that the male patient tested positive for anthrax by the CDC, The mayor said at a televised news conference. One New Yorker, a hospital worker, contracted the deadlier inhalation anthrax and died on Wednesday, the first fatality in New York and the fourth nationwide. The other four New Yorkers afflicted have skin anthrax.
The 'New York Post' employee had handled mail dating from September, Giuliani said, adding that he was being treated with antibiotics. The man was the 16th American with a confirmed case of anthrax in the continuing bio-terror attack. The fact that he was looking at mail gives us a hypothesis to work with, Giuliani said, while noting that the infection of the hospital worker with no links to the media, the government or the postal service remained a mystery.
Two other employees at the 'New York Post' have been infected with skin anthrax, but their cases have not been confirmed by the CDC. However, the Post's Suzi Halpin told news persons on Friday that the newspaper and the New York health authorities consider all three cases to be confirmed.
Giuliani said tests at deceased hospital worker Kathy Nguyen's home and workplace had all come back negative for anthrax contamination so far.
Bureau Report