WEDNESDAY,OCT.31,2001
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NYC hospital employee tests positive for anthrax
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A 61-year-old hospital worker is "struggling for her survival" after preliminarily testing positive for the dangerous inhalation anthrax, the city health commissioner said yesterday.
The source of the infection is not known. Some environmental samples from the woman's workplace, the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, have come back negative, while others are pending, and no one else is showing signs of the disease, said Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
The cause of the infection was not immediately confirmed, but Giuliani said it was assumed to be anthrax.
Other hospitals in the city have been alerted "to take precautions
... and share their findings with us," Health Commissioner Neal Cohen said.
Dr. Steven Ostroff of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the case was troubling because it was the first in New York involving the inhalation form of the disease and because unlike all New York's other anthrax cases, "There's no clear linkage with the mail," Ostroff said.
The woman started feeling ill on Thursday and entered the hospital on Sunday, authorities said. They were alerted to the case Monday and announced it late in the day.
"There was a rapid progression from Saturday to Sunday," Commissioner Cohen said.
Cohen said antibiotics would be offered to anyone who might have encountered the woman dating back to Oct. 11, two weeks before the onset of her symptoms. The mayor said about 200 people worked in the hospital and that hundreds if not thousands of patients had come through in that time.
Giuliani said the ill woman worked in the hospital's supply room, which shared space or was close to the hospital's mail room. But there was "no indication of a letter yet" as the source of the anthrax, he said.
In Florida, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., three people have died from inhaled anthrax, three others have confirmed cases and one has recovered.
FBI: More attacks possible
OMAHA, Neb. — The task before Gov. Mike Johanns, like the other 49 governors, was unenviable; Nebraska officials, already on high alert, were asked to go even higher.
The Associated Press
Monday, the FBI issued a new terrorism warning — the second this month — asking Americans to be on the highest alert for possible attacks this week, though no specific threat was identified.
"I am taking this warning very, very seriously," Johanns said.
Across the nation, governors struggled with how to respond after being notified of the new
threat during a conference call with Tom Ridge, the nation's new homeland security director.
in the West Hollywood area of Los Angeles, where up to 250,000 people were expected for Halloween celebrations, police planned to have deputies patrolling by foot, car and horseback —
By week's end, New York Gov George Pataki said more than 1,500 National Guard troops in and around New York City, from the World Trade Center site to airports and nuclear facilities, will be armed. Currently, only Guard troops at airports and nuclear plants are armed.
security measures already planned before Monday's advisory.
Montana Gov. Judy Martz announced yesterday how the state planned to respond to the FBI warning. "As soon as we know what we're doing, we'll give you as much information as we can," she said.
Many other officials shared her concern — and frustration.
"Obviously, if you're at the highest state, it's hard to go higher," said Jim McDonald, spokesman for a company that operates the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Plant, 50 miles west of Phoenix.
Strikes on Afghanistan 'relentless'
The Associated Presse
CHARIKAR; Afghanistan — An American bomb blasted huge plumes of smoke 1,000 feet into the skies over Afghanistan's front lines yesterday in an unusually mighty airstrike.
higher security.
The opposition alliance deployed hundreds of troops near Taliban lines north of Kabul, the first tangible sign of preparations for an assault on the capital.
The United States acknowledged it had uniformed military personnel in Afghanistan, coordinating airstrikes with the opposition. A senior opposition official said such coordination would increase in coming days and that alliance forces were planning a major offensive to wrest the strategic northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif from the Taliban.
"There is coordination in all aspects," Abdullah, the foreign minister of the Afghan government-in-exile, said in an interview with Associated Press Television News.
in strikes that an opposition spokesman called relentless. "They hit very important positions of the Taliban," spokesman Ashraf Nadeem said.
U. S. jets pounded Taliban positions in the Balkh region around Mazar-e-Sharif yesterday,
Witnesses also said they saw a U.S. plane drop a bomb yesterday at the Bagram front lines, about 25 miles north of Kabul, creating a mushroom cloud that billowed at least 1,000 feet into the air. Witnesses called it the biggest bomb to hit the area in 10 days of American bombardments on the front lines.
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