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Signs of anthrax at two Pentagon mailrooms
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-15 14:07

Sensors at two military mail facilities in the Washington area detected signs of anthrax on two pieces of mail Monday, but Pentagon officials said the mail had already been irradiated, rendering any anthrax inert.

Officials weren't sure if this was an attack. Additional tests and other sensors at the two facilities, one of them at the Pentagon and the other nearby, found no presence of the bacteria, which can be used as a biological weapon. There were no initial reports of illness.

A postal customer Mike Rogers, center, of Bordentown, N.J., mails a package at the post office in Hamilton, N.J., which opened Monday, March 14, 2005, for the first time in more than three years. The post office has been closed since Oct. 18, 2001, after anthrax-laced letters sent to Tom Brokaw, two U.S. senators and the offices of the New York Post passed through here further heightening the nation's insecurity in the weeks after the Sept. 11, terror attacks. [AP]
A postal customer Mike Rogers, center, of Bordentown, N.J., mails a package at the post office in Hamilton, N.J., which opened Monday, March 14, 2005, for the first time in more than three years. The post office has been closed since Oct. 18, 2001, after anthrax-laced letters sent to Tom Brokaw, two U.S. senators and the offices of the New York Post passed through here further heightening the nation's insecurity in the weeks after the Sept. 11, terror attacks. [AP]
The Pentagon's mail delivery site, which is separate from the main Pentagon building, was evacuated and shut down Monday after sensors triggered an alarm around 10:30 a.m. EST, spokesman Glenn Flood said. It was expected to remain closed until at least Tuesday while the investigation continued.

Hours later, sensors at the second Defense Department mailroom were triggered. Firefighters in the nearby Bailey's Crossroads section of Fairfax County, Va., reported that a military mailroom had been shut down after a hazardous-material alert. No one was allowed to leave a high-rise complex that houses the facility until mid-evening Monday.

Microscope view of bacillus anthrax spores. Suspected anthrax bacteria was detected at a mail delivery facility at the Pentagon and at another satellite facility, but subsequent tests have proved negative, the US Defense Department said. [AFP/File]
Microscope view of bacillus anthrax spores. Suspected anthrax bacteria was detected at a mail delivery facility at the Pentagon and at another satellite facility, but subsequent tests have proved negative, the US Defense Department said. [AFP/File]
Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Cmdr. Jane Campbell said mail at both facilities were irradiated before arriving at either one. The radiation treatment would kill any anthrax bacteria, but sensors would still be able to detect it.

She had no information about the origin of the two pieces of mail.

About 175 people work at the Pentagon's mail facility, and another 100 may have been in contact with deliveries for the Pentagon, officials said.

Medical personnel took cultures from anyone who may have had contact with those deliveries, and those people were also offered a three-day course of antibiotics and told to watch for the signs of anthrax exposure: fever, sweats and chills.

Follow-up tests were being conducted at the U.S. Army Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Dietrich, Md., officials said. They would take two to three days to complete.

General operations at the Pentagon appeared unaffected.

Anthrax can be spread through the air or by skin contact. Officials noted that sometimes anthrax sensors can give false-positive results.

Several cases involving letters laced with killer substances remain unsolved.

In October 2001, someone sent anthrax in letters through the mail to media and government offices in Washington, Florida and elsewhere, raising fears of bioterrorism. Five people were killed and 17 more sickened.

In October 2003, two letters containing the poison ricin, sent to the Transportation Department and White House, were intercepted before they reached their destinations. The letters objected to new rules for long-haul truckers.

A small amount of ricin was discovered Feb. 2, 2004, on a mail-opening machine in the office suite of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn. The discovery led to a shutdown of three Senate office buildings for several days, and about two dozen staffers and Capitol police officers underwent decontamination.



 
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