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Postal workers mark 10-year anniversary of anthrax attacks

Friday, October 21st, 2011

Ten years ago Saturday, the country’s deadly outbreak of bioterrorism had shuttered Washington’s main mail-sorting center in Northeast Washington. Its 2,000 workers were scattered in chaos and fear. And two men in their extended family were dead from inhaling anthrax-laced letters . On Friday, Joseph P. Curseen Jr. and Thomas L. Morris Jr. were remembered by postal workers and officials with prayer vigils and memorials. Their deaths are a reminder of the slow horror and mystery of the anthrax attacks as they unfolded from the elite world of Capitol Hill to the Brentwood facility, where workers had been assured by health officials that they were safe. Read full article > >

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Postal workers mark 10-year anniversary of anthrax attacks