NYC Law Department release
Independent mirror · updated as the City releases more · v1.2.6
← Document results/DEP Box 06/DEP 59.17 Junction Blvd, 11th FL
Document / 1 page

News article on anthrax study disclosure and CDC communication, undated

Machine-extracted title · confidence 90%

Newspaper report regarding a Canadian anthrax study and the delayed notification of CDC officials.

NYC-WTC_000141743

Folder label: “DEP 59.17 Junction Blvd, 11th FL

Page image
Scanned page image, NYC-WTC_000141743
OCR text

OCR status: ok · source: pdftotext

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

^Lethal anthrax’ report kept from CDG A study showing that a letter containing anthrax was far more dan­ gerous than anyone had believed was not made available to the Cen­ ters for Disease Control imtil after the anthrax attack on Senate Ma­ jority Leader Tom Daschle’s office, it was reported today. More than two dozen federal government employees knew of the Canadian study, which showed that a letter laced with anthrax could release thousands of lethal doses of the bacteria within minutes of being opened, The Washington Post said. But the CbC wasn’t told about the study until ar few weeks after a letter filled with anthrax was sent to Daschle. jP “We were clearly dealing in a low-informafion environment,” Bradley Perkins, the CDC’s lead anthrax investigator. told the paper. Several postal workers came down with the disease ,,after tiie Daschle letter passed through two mail-sorting centers. Two em­ ployees died. Daschle’s staffers were given antibiotics immediately, but the pills were not administered to postal workers until six-days after the Ipttpj.x^ppene^.^,.^,^ ...... Ed Rd£^on

NeuJ Sork Posh Feb, 11. Sooa

NYC-WTC_000141743

OCR can misread numbers and units. Confirm readings against the page image before using them.

NYC-WTC_000141743Source: NYC Law Department, mirrored locally

Related records

Browse subjects →

Ranked by indexed similarity. Reasons describe shared subjects and filing context; check the source records.

Same-box records

Filed elsewhere

More like this page

Similar subjects in other documents. Similarity does not establish the same event, measurement or conclusion.

Page similarity is temporarily unavailable or this page has no indexed vector.

Others also read

Readers open these alongside this record — through an Ask answer, the same folder, or indexed similarity. Not a claim they are about the same event.

Compare copies and versions →