Anthrax Remediation of Hart Senate Building 2001 USEPA

Before the anthrax attacks in late 2001, bioterrorism experts believed that the remediation of large urban areas or buildings contaminated with anthrax spores was not a viable option. The cleanup experience from the 2001 attacks, in which letters containing Anthrax spores were mailed to media outlets and two Senators, has demonstrated that buildings in the civilian sector can be effectively remediated and returned to productive use. This clip shows the remediation process for the US Senate Hart Office Building using chlorine dioxide gas. For an excellent review of the experience remediating buildings learned from the 2001 anthrax attacks, read the 2003 EPA report by Dorothy A. Canter, Ph.D., US Environmental Protection Remediating Sites with Anthrax Contamination: Building on Experience, available at: http://www.epa.gov/nhsrc/pubs/paperAnthrax Remediation020607.pdf . This was clipped from the 2002 USEPA video, Anthrax Remediating the Effects of Bioterrorism.

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• Anthrax
• bioterrorism
• biological
• WMD
• CBRN
• infectious
• disease
• OSHA
• EPA
• NIOSH
• CDC
• Hazwoper
• deontamination