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Building no longer quarantined
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published February 13, 2007
BOCA RATON - Health officials on Monday lifted a quarantine of a building once occupied by a tabloid newspaper but vacated after an anthrax attack killed a photo editor. Last week, federal officials told the Palm Beach County Health Department that their review of the building's decontamination found the site could be safely reoccupied and normal activities resumed. The department announced Monday it agreed with the findings. Bob Stevens, a photo editor for American Media Inc., died in October 2001 after being exposed to anthrax in an envelope mailed to the building, which housed offices of the National Enquirer. Stevens' diagnosis brought to light widespread anthrax attacks that paralyzed the nation with bioterrorism fears shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. The publisher moved from the building, and the case remains unsolved. The cleanup began in July 2004. The building was fumigated with chlorine dioxide. A year later, thousands of boxes stored in the basement were decontaminated.
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