Anthrax Contaminated Bldg AMI Investigation 2001 USEPA

Shortly after the attacks of September 11, 2001, a series of letters were mailed anonymously to several news media companies and government officials in the United States. This clip shows the first EPA investigation of an anthrax contaminated building. For more details on this response, go to the EPA report at: http://www.epa.gov/region4/waste/errb/CPdfs/fl/pbanthrax.pdf . For more information on the weaponization of anthrax, go to http://www.gwu.edu/~cih/anthraxinfo/public/publicthreat_history.htm . For more information on anthrax disease, go to the World Health Organization (WHO) at http://www.who.int/csr/disease/Anthrax/en/ or the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listing/anthrax_gi.html .
This was clipped from the 2002 USEPA video, Anthrax Remediating the Effects of Bioterrorism.

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