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WASHINGTON, Nov 01 (Reuters Health) - Environmental testing in the home and workplace of the New York City woman who died Wednesday morning from inhalation anthrax have yielded no signs of the bacteria, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday evening.
Dr. Jeffrey Koplan said that investigators have begun interviewing the woman's social contacts and piecing together her movements over the last several days in an attempt to locate where she may have contracted the disease.
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Kathy T. Nguyen, 61, died Wednesday morning of pulmonary, or inhalation anthrax, the most lethal form of the infection. Nguyen was an employee at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. Employees and patients who were in the hospital building over the last few days have been advised to take prophylactic antibiotic therapy.
"We continue to seek more information on this unfortunate last murdered victim," Koplan said during a conference call with reporters.
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The case was the fourth anthrax death since the disease first surfaced several weeks ago in Florida. But this latest case poses a troubling mystery for investigators, who so far have been unable to establish any link between Nguyen and a piece of tainted mail.
Nguyen worked in a hospital stock room that is located next to a mailroom. But with no definite link established, officials must grapple with the possibility that Nguyen contracted anthrax from somewhere else. If tainted mail were implicated, it would be the first evidence that letters pose a threat to private citizens and not just government offices and private mailrooms.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Wednesday said the Nguyen case is an "outlier" in the ongoing public health investigations.
Several federal offices and postal stations have been closed after positive tests revealed anthrax contamination. Investigators now appear less certain than they were even a few days ago that private mail represents no threat to private citizens.
, http://www.100md.com "The risk from mail is not zero. It is very low, but it is not zero," Koplan said.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said that 450 HHS workers are currently "in the field" dealing with anthrax investigations and intervention. CDC has been dispensing antibiotics to at-risk individuals from the national pharmaceutical stockpile, he said.
CDC also has 33 personnel in New York City working to investigate a handful of anthrax events that have occurred there over the last two-and-a-half weeks.
"As a result of our constant learning, we know more today than yesterday and will know more tomorrow," Thompson said., 百拇医药
Dr. Jeffrey Koplan said that investigators have begun interviewing the woman's social contacts and piecing together her movements over the last several days in an attempt to locate where she may have contracted the disease.
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Kathy T. Nguyen, 61, died Wednesday morning of pulmonary, or inhalation anthrax, the most lethal form of the infection. Nguyen was an employee at the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. Employees and patients who were in the hospital building over the last few days have been advised to take prophylactic antibiotic therapy.
"We continue to seek more information on this unfortunate last murdered victim," Koplan said during a conference call with reporters.
, 百拇医药
The case was the fourth anthrax death since the disease first surfaced several weeks ago in Florida. But this latest case poses a troubling mystery for investigators, who so far have been unable to establish any link between Nguyen and a piece of tainted mail.
Nguyen worked in a hospital stock room that is located next to a mailroom. But with no definite link established, officials must grapple with the possibility that Nguyen contracted anthrax from somewhere else. If tainted mail were implicated, it would be the first evidence that letters pose a threat to private citizens and not just government offices and private mailrooms.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Wednesday said the Nguyen case is an "outlier" in the ongoing public health investigations.
Several federal offices and postal stations have been closed after positive tests revealed anthrax contamination. Investigators now appear less certain than they were even a few days ago that private mail represents no threat to private citizens.
, http://www.100md.com "The risk from mail is not zero. It is very low, but it is not zero," Koplan said.
Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said that 450 HHS workers are currently "in the field" dealing with anthrax investigations and intervention. CDC has been dispensing antibiotics to at-risk individuals from the national pharmaceutical stockpile, he said.
CDC also has 33 personnel in New York City working to investigate a handful of anthrax events that have occurred there over the last two-and-a-half weeks.
"As a result of our constant learning, we know more today than yesterday and will know more tomorrow," Thompson said., 百拇医药